Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy / by Gary D. Schmidt.
By: Schmidt, Gary D.
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BookPublisher: New York : Clarion Books, c2004Description: 219 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0618439293.Subject(s): Progress -- Fiction | Race relations -- Fiction | Moving, Household -- Fiction | Clergy -- Fiction | Maine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Progress -- Fiction | Race relations -- Fiction | Moving -- Fiction | Clergy -- Fiction | Maine -- History -- Fiction | Historical fictionDDC classification: [Fic] Awards: D.C.F. Award 05-06Summary: In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
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In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
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