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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy2004

Gary D. Schmidt

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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.

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First published
2004
OL Work ID
OL1922921W

Subjects

Race relationsFictionMoving, HouseholdClergyHousehold MovingProgressHistoryReading Level-Grade 5Reading Level-Grade 7Reading Level-Grade 6Reading Level-Grade 8Juvenile fictionMovingHistorical fictionNewbery HonorChildren's fictionMaine, fictionFriendship, fiction

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