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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy by Gary D. Schmidt · Booklabria

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

HistoryHistorical Fiction

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Name: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy
Author: Gary D. Schmidt

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First published: 1999
Language: English
Editions: 5

Synopsis

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: History
Historical Fiction
Children's fiction
Friendship
Race relations
Clergy
Set in: Maine
Time: 20th Century

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