Schmidt, Gary D.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy / by Gary D. Schmidt. - New York : Clarion Books, c2004. - 219 p. ; 22 cm.

School Library Journal starred Kirkus Starred

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.

5-8

D.C.F. Award 05-06

0618439293

2003020967


Progress--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Moving, Household--Fiction.
Clergy--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Progress--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Moving--Fiction.
Clergy--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Maine--History--20th century--Fiction.
Maine--History--Fiction.

PZ7.S3527 / Li 2004

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