Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General
3.8
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.
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Author
Gary D. Schmidt
Pages
219
Publisher
Clarion Books
Published Date
2004
ISBN
0553494953 9780553494952
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"It was well-written, but I'm very surprised that this is considered the best of Gary Schmidt's work. I have absolutely loved all of his other books, but not this one. I also felt it was a mistake to use the Origin of Species as kindling for Turner's internal changes, considering its racist content"
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"Umm. About this book.<br/>Well, quite frankly, it was boring. So, so, so, so, so, so (you probably get the point) boring. It was a Virginia Reader's Choice book, so I had to read it for the school VRC contest. It was the most difficult to get through. I finally got about halfway through the book. At that point it began to be interesting. I finally became really interested in the book until the end, where <spoiler>every character you grew to care about died. Literally.</spoiler><br/>There were a few funny moments, a few touching moments, but overall I definitely wouldn't reccomend it."
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