Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

By Gary D. Schmidt
Unabridged
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“Schmidt takes his time with his tale, spinning gloriously figurative language that brilliantly evokes both place and emotion. Turner himself is a wonderfully rich character, his moral and intellectual growth developing naturally…There can be no happy ending to this story, but the telling is both beautiful and emotionally honest, both funny and piercingly sad.”

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Winner of Printz Honors, 2005

Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. Lizzie shows Turner a new world along the Maine coast from digging clams to rowing a boat next to a whale. When the powerful town elders, including Turner’s father, decide to drive the people off the island to set up a tourist business, Turner stands alone against them. He and Lizzie try to save her community, but there’s a terrible price to pay for going against the tide.