First, Margaret Rose Kane has to deal with a pack of girls at summer camp that passive/aggressively taunt her and generally make life miserable. On top of this, the camp director is a controlling and rigid personality that is just unable to deal with Margaret once she begins channeling Bartleby the Scrivner with her, "I prefer not to" game she starts playing.
Then, once rescued from this camp and allowed to live at 19 Schuyler Place with her Hungarian great-uncles. Just when you begin to think Margret, despite being a quote-unquote victim, is becoming a bit grating these delightful uncles and their truffle-seeking dog Tartufo rescue the book.
These guys have spent the past 40-50 years building these strange and apparently beautiful towers on their property that the new homeowner's association wants, of course, to have demolished. The rest of the book is how the characters unite around Margaret's desire to fight off this fresh new tyranny.
So, I mostly liked the book and many of the characters and the ending is particularly satisfying. But Margaret herself? Meh.
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
