Age
12+
Grade
7-9
Gary D. Schmidt
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Mass Market Paperback
(Laurel Leaf May 13, 2008)
, 60193rd Edition
Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. Lizzie shows Turner a new world along the Maine coast from digging clams to rowing a boat next to a whale. When the powerful town elders, including Turner’s father, decide to drive the people off the island to set up a tourist business, Turner stands alone against them. He and Lizzie try to save her community, but there’s a terrible price to pay for going against the tide.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Series
- Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf)
- ISBN
- 0375841695 / 9780375841699
- Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 4.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.44 x 0.71
in.