num_pages: 219
description: 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.
language: English
title: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
titlecomplete: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
genres: Historical, Childrens, Teen, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 10202
places: Malaga Island, Maine, Maine, Phippsburg, Maine
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Michael L. Printz Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award
publisher: Yearling