A companion novel to Silent to the Bone, Konigsburg gives us a glimpse of camp life for 12-year-old Margaret Kane. Margaret is tormented by her cabin mates and refuses to be intimidated by the rigid camp director. Rescued by her elderly uncles and taken to their home, Margaret is appalled to discover that the city has ordered that the artistic towers her uncles have created in the backyard over the past 45 years are to be taken down because they do not adhere to the new guidelines for the now historic district. Stung by the idea that profit-seeking interest groups manipulating government regulations could destroy the real history of art, Margaret swings into action to fight a tyranny greater than the one she encountered at camp.--Ministry of Education website.

English language arts grade 7 (2009).