Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy
By: by Gary D. Schmidt.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Progress -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.; Moving, Household -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Maine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.