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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Paperback - 2013

by Gary D. Schmidt

This historical novel, based on the true story of a community's destruction, follows Turner Buckminster and Lizzie Bright as their friendship forms and their lives are changed.
 


Summary

[set star] "Both beautiful and emotionally honest, both funny and piercingly sad."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
 
Turner Buckminster hates Phippsburg, Maine. Then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart, sassy girl from a poor nearby island community. Lizzie introduces Turner to the wonders of Maine's coast. But 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 tourist trade there. Based on the true story of a community's destruction, this sensitively written novel highlights a unique friendship during a time of change, and was awarded both a Newbery Honor and Printz Honor.

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  • Title Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
  • Author Gary D. Schmidt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books
  • Date 2013-05-14
  • ISBN 9780544022799 / 0544022793
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.62 x 5.12 x 0.54 in (19.35 x 13.00 x 1.37 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 1000
  • Library of Congress subjects Race relations, Maine
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"Gloriously figurative language...brilliantly evokes both time and place...both beautiful and emotionally honest, both funny and piercingly sad."-- Kirkus, starred reviews

"A powerful tale of friendship and coming-of-age...haunting combination of fact and fiction has a powerful and tragic climax."-- Booklist, ALA, starred review

"An evocative novel...with fully developed, memorable characters...fascinating, little-known piece of history...will leave a powerful impression on readers."-- School Library Journal, starred review

"Schmidt fictionalizes a true event... vividly realized...fully credible...subtly drawn."-- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Historical incident ignites a rich novel...a drama that examines the best and worst of humanity."-- Horn Book

About the author

Gary D. Schmidt is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and a Newbery Honor for The Wednesday Wars. He lives with his family in Alto, Michigan, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, and feeds the wild cats that drop by.
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