Title: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Race relations, Fiction, Moving, Household, Clergy, Household Moving, Progress, History, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Juvenile fiction, Moving, Historical fiction, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Maine, fiction, Friendship, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:1000, lexile_range:1001-1100, age:min:10, age:max:12, grade:min:5, grade:max:7
Places: Maine
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PZ7.S3527 Li 2004