Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Name: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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ISBN: 9780544022799

ISBN-10: 0544022793

ISBN-13: 9780544022799

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gary D. Schmidt

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It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father's--and the town's--disapproval of their friendship, Turner spends time with Lizzie,opening up a whole new world to him, filled with the mystery and wonder of Maine's rocky coast. The two soon discover that the town elders, along with Turner's father, want to force the people to leave Lizzie's island to start a lucrative tourist trade there. This sensitively written…

Book details

List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.13" wide x 7.63" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling author of Okay For Now , the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy , and the Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars. He is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.