Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Gary D. Schmidt First published 2004

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • age:max:12
  • age:min:10
  • award:newbery_award
  • children's fiction
  • clergy
  • fiction
  • friendship, fiction
  • grade:max:7
  • grade:min:5
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • household moving
  • juvenile fiction
  • lexile:1000
  • lexile_range:1001-1100
  • maine, fiction
  • moving
  • moving, household
  • newbery honor
  • progress
  • race relations
  • reading level-grade 5
  • reading level-grade 6
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8