Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D Schmidt

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D Schmidt

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.

Gary Schmidt is an English professor at Calvin College and coauthor of Pushing the Limits of Children's Literature with Carol Winters.

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ISBN 13	9780618439294
ISBN 10	0618439293
Title	Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Author	Gary D Schmidt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2004-05-24
Number of pages	219
Prizes	Commended for Newbery Medal (Children's) 2005, Commended for Michael L. Printz Award (Young Adult) 2005, Commended for Lupine Award (Children/Young Adult) 2004, Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (Middle School) 2008, Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2007, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2006, Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Young Adult) 2006, Short-listed for Isinglass Teen Read Award 2005, Short-listed for West Virginia Children's Book Award 2007, Short-listed for Sequoyah Book Awards (Young Adult) 2006
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