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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

by Gary D. Schmidt

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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...more

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Mar 09, 2009

Andrea rated it

Alright...I have so much to say about this book...this is a winner, a really good book. Excellent. My first Printz Award book for this class. More soon.

Okay..Here's the "more soon" part. This book won the Printz Award, and I really like how they describe their criteria for literary excellence and quality on their website by what it is not. For example, a book is not quality simply by being popular. Although, of course, the two are not mutually exclusive. This book do...moreAlright...I have so much to say about this book...this is a winner, a really good book. Excellent. My first Printz Award book for this class. More soon.

Okay..Here's the "more soon" part. This book won the Printz Award, and I really like how they describe their criteria for literary excellence and quality on their website by what it is not. For example, a book is not quality simply by being popular. Although, of course, the two are not mutually exclusive. This book does not look to me like it was/is a popular read. But, it is quality.

The characters in this book are delicioulsy detailed and their relationships are real and engaging. The Maine breeze is a character itself in this book, as the setting takes on a whole dimension of life and growth in itself. The breeze is described in every momentous scene of the book and can be "like a cat awaking for a bowl of milk" to "solemn" when Turner's father dies. It steals the gold from the maple trees and the silver from the aspens or it just slinks away. It carries news up and down the street. It scatters old leaves around the foundations of the house where the people were forced to leave. It lends a special eye to scenes, revealing secrets of the moment the reader might otherwise have overlooked, almost like a hidden narrator. As I have just begun reading The Thief Lord for the Batchelder, I can see a deep parallel in how they both use the setting as an engaging, developing character in their stories. In conjunction with great characters and great character development, that appeals to me a lot.

The friendship between Lizzie and Turner is so real and memorable it haunts you, as it does Turner, with her voice coming back to meet his when he is back out at sea with the whales. This is among the best descriptions of friendship I have read. It lasts you.

As you read this book, you are on a journey of discovering who you, as Turner Buckminster are, who your father is, who your friends are and aren't, what your life will be determined by. It is a very existential read. You look for secrets in this book..big ones,like the secret to the meaning of life Who is Turner's father on the inside? What does the whale know? What will we each person in this life be determined by?

You "light out for the territories" when you take this book in your hands just as Turner does when he takes The Origin of Species into his.

The knowledge in his father's eyes, in the whale's eyes is very deep, made deepr by the whole telling of the story behind it. It is the profound knoweldge that "the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on....that everything rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing"

A simply excellent read.

And what's more, I never would have truly known it was historical fiction without the author's note. Good historical fiction can... ring heartfully true in this time.

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Mar 24, 2008

Tiff rated it

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Recommends it for: everyone ages 12 and up who can appreciate a well-written, touching tale

Shelves: audio, newbery, printz, young-adult, tiffs-favorites, own, top-ten, from-my-high-school-library

Wow. This was an incredibly written, heartbreaking tale. I absolutely loved it. I listened to it on CD while traveling, and so many times I wanted to pull my car over, rewind, and write down a quote from the book. The writing was just amazing. What more can I say.

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Jan 19, 2008

Krista the Krazy Kataloguer rated it

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The friendship between a preacher's son and a black girl in 1912 Maine is tested by the prejudice of the townspeople. Great character development. It was good, but I wouldn't have given it a Newbery honor book award.

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Aug 17, 2008

coreyc rated it

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If I hadn't come to the book with such a hardy mistrust of children's-book-awards and their accompanying cliches, my skepticism might never have been tickled. With that baggage in tow, however, I couldn't help noting each time a stock figure or a cliche appeared. By halfway through the book, I had a mental checklist: "crazy" old lady who is actually subversive and intuitive? check. small boy against the capitalist machine? check. small town as a microcosm of the world (or at least nati...more

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Feb 23, 2008

Allyson Faith rated it

This is a young adult novel that I've been hearing about for the last year. It is remarkable, and I now wish I'd read it earlier. I want everyone I know to read it --it's that good. It's set in 1912 in a small town in Maine. The main character is the teenage son of a minister who has a new job in this town--so this boy, Turner, his father and mother move from Boston to Maine. Turner doesn't hit it off with the local boys, but one day when beachcombing he meets Lizzie Bright--one of the young Afr...more

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Nov 10, 2007

Vanna Barr rated it

This book is a very well-written, very entertaining book set in 1912 about a minister's son who moves to Phippsburg, a small town in Massachusetts, when his dad is asked to pastor the church in that small seaside town. When he arrives, our 13 year old protagonist doesn't get along with any of the other kids from that town and ends up befriending a young girl who lives on a nearby island called Malaga.

The problem is that the people of Phippsburg are trying to evict all persons living ...moreThis book is a very well-written, very entertaining book set in 1912 about a minister's son who moves to Phippsburg, a small town in Massachusetts, when his dad is asked to pastor the church in that small seaside town. When he arrives, our 13 year old protagonist doesn't get along with any of the other kids from that town and ends up befriending a young girl who lives on a nearby island called Malaga.

The problem is that the people of Phippsburg are trying to evict all persons living on that island because they're black. They quickly convince their new pastor to back them despite his weak protests. The protagonist stands up against the town's people and his father and supports the inhabitants of Malaga. How well-written is the book? It won the Newberry Honor and it's not hard to see why EXCEPT for the consistently negative portrayal of Christians in this book. Almost all of the people of the church, especially the corrupt deacons, support the removal of the Malaga denizens. While it's true that Turner's father in a weak way does not want to back the rich, powerful people of the town in their eviction of the inhabitants of Malaga, it almost seems in spite of his Christianity and not because of his Christianity.

Add to this the surreptitious reading by our protagonist and his father of Darwin's Origin of Species which they agree with each other would anger the church's deacons and you have another well-written story in which the bad guys are those close-minded, hypocritical Christians and the good guys are those who question the status quo.

I will acknowledge that the author does not seem to say the church members are bad because of their beliefs, but he also doesn't seem to say that our protagonist and a few other people make the right choices because of their beliefs either. In fact, church going just seems to be some kind of custom rather than an exercise that helps one to learn what's right and what's wrong. Jesus clearly taught us that we are to love our neighbors as ourselves and that everyone is our neighbor regardless of what they look like and where they come from. It would have been nice if the author had put that in.(less)

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Jan 23, 2012

Katherine Gingrich rated it

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This books generates so much emotion out of you that when it ends you are angry. This book deals with pressure to play the part as the new Minister's son, or the Officer's kid, or whatever you may be.
On top of being the "new kid" Turner is a Minister's son and as such expected by the town to set a good example for everyone else. The story is set in a time where skin color and ansestry mattered. When Turner runs away from the other boys because everything is the same in theory...more

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Jan 09, 2012

Jan rated it

This is why I keep reading....Because every once in awhile a book comes along that changes me and becomes part of me forever. I'll always remember who I was when I read it. I'll wish I had written it but I'll know I never could, though I'll draw inspiration and courage from it, for both writing and living.

Quick, ten books that have done this, and the age at which I read them: Anne of Green Gables (11). The Once and Future King (13). A Separate Peace (16). Dr. Zhivago (17). The Chosen ...moreThis is why I keep reading....Because every once in awhile a book comes along that changes me and becomes part of me forever. I'll always remember who I was when I read it. I'll wish I had written it but I'll know I never could, though I'll draw inspiration and courage from it, for both writing and living.

Quick, ten books that have done this, and the age at which I read them: Anne of Green Gables (11). The Once and Future King (13). A Separate Peace (16). Dr. Zhivago (17). The Chosen (late 20s). The World According to Garp (30ish). The Prince of Tides (40ish). A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (50ish). Cutting for Stone (60ish).

Add to this Honor Roll Gary D. Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, an award-winning 2004 children's book. It's based on a true tale of injustice, the kind that's hidden safely in the dusty history of every state until some writer shines a light on it and reminds us of how much oppression has scarred this "free" country of ours.

At first it's just the story of one boy, Turner Buckminster III, only son of a minister who's just moved his family to a small town about a century ago. Turner wants no part of Phippsburg, Maine. If he can't stay in Boston and play baseball with his friends, he'd prefer to just light out for the Territories, wherever and whatever they are. Instead he must endure the pressure of being the minister's son, the scorn and derision of the local boys who manage to make a fool out of him even at his beloved baseball, and the scolding of the intolerant neighbors who see it as their duty to manage the lives of Turner and even his parents.

Lonely and resentful, Turner spends his time exploring the shores of the nearby tidal river, where he finds Lizzie Bright Griffin clamming in the mudflats, and a memorable friendship is born. Lizzie takes him to Malaga Island, where a small colony of poor outcasts--mostly black like Lizzie and her grandfather--have made their homes for years. For Turner it's a good place to be. Lizzie's exuberant spirit soothes his angry soul and gives him a reason to be glad he's alive.

Of course there's a but, embodied in the Dickensian Mr. Stonecrop, a self-righteous bully who holds most of the townspeople in his power. He informs Turner's father that he's expected to join the effort to rid Malaga of the undesirables who squat there so the island can be developed for tourism. Before long everyone's involved in the conflict, and more is at stake than the friendship of two children. Tensions escalate. Enemies fortify their corners and come out fighting, and innocent people are caught in the crossfire. Adult-sized tragedies ensue; don't give this book to a young child until you've read it yourself. Then, after you've grappled with the issues Turner must face, find a child you love enough to share difficult truths with and read this story together.

Schmidt is a master at creating both plot and character. Each chapter hooks us further into Turner and Lizzie's feelings, ratcheting up the tension as the story widens in scope. Most of the townspeople fit the stereotype of narrow-minded Christians, but individuals emerge to help Turner and surprise us. Turner's mother says little, but her sympathy for him and her disappointment in the husband she loves enrich the story. All the adults are shackled in ways they can't see. It is the free, oppressed, doomed people of Malaga Island who teach Turner how to live:

"A loud screeching of gulls from behind the pines, louder and louder, and then it was no longer gulls who were screeching but a pack of five, or four, or six, or who knows how many children flapping their arms and running up and down and back and forth, screeching and cackling, and then careening down upon them, cawing and laughing and thrashing up the water until they flopped down like a flock of swarming birds all come to roost....Two of them grabbed Turner's hands. `Fly with us!' cried one."(less)

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Jan 04, 2012

Shanna Gonzalez rated it

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Turner Buckminster, the new minister's son, has great trouble fitting into his new town, but he finds friendship with Lizzie, one of the despised former slaves "squatting" on a nearby island. When the small shanty settlement is driven away to make room for tourism, Turner attempts to defend Lizzie, standing against overwhelming social pressure. Throughout this story, the young people's friendship is developed with subtlety, depth, and a mild romantic tension. Lizzie is portrayed as ...moreTurner Buckminster, the new minister's son, has great trouble fitting into his new town, but he finds friendship with Lizzie, one of the despised former slaves "squatting" on a nearby island. When the small shanty settlement is driven away to make room for tourism, Turner attempts to defend Lizzie, standing against overwhelming social pressure. Throughout this story, the young people's friendship is developed with subtlety, depth, and a mild romantic tension. Lizzie is portrayed as a gentle, lively, and preturnaturally wise girl who clearly sees the social forces that are arrayed against her. Turner is slower to catch on, and his grief at their forced parting is made sharper by surprise.

Some important themes in this story: Turner's father is at first distant and very controlling, and the two of them eventually form a bond by reading Darwin together. At one point Turner wonders if his father believes the religious ideas he is proclaiming, and the reader is clearly meant to understand that he does not. His father's hypocrisy is atoned for when at the climax of the story he reverses his conformist stance and opposes the settlement's eviction at the risk of his own life. One might interpret his dramatic reversal to show that social justice carries greater moral weight than the teachings of the Bible.

This underlying theme is made more clear in the denouement of the story, when Turner takes his boat out to sea and remembers Lizzie. There he meets the whales that have been a symbol of transcendence and courage throughout the story -- creatures he has never understood. On encountering them now he comes to the conclusion that:

The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted. Turner knew that everything in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.

One might interpret this to mean that the author believes the great goal of humanity is to forge connection with other people. This is an important part of human experience, but does not reach as far as the Westminster Catechism's teaching that man's main purpose is "to know God and enjoy Him forever." I would suggest that this is a moral tale, not strictly a Christian one, although elements of it that will resonate with Christian sensibilities.

This is a sensitively written story about human experience, about courage in the face of evil, and about American small-town life, with an admirable protagonist who comes of age through learning some terribly hard lessons. It does not shy away from the evil hidden in the hearts of humanity, and ultimately it is an inspiring story. Its humanist perspective will require some discernment to engage, and I would recommend that parents read this book along with their kids.(less)

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Nov 03, 2011

Lisa rated it

Recommended to Lisa by: book club

Shelves: fiction-historical, fiction-young-adult

Turner Buckminster moves to Maine when his father takes a position as a minister in Phippsburg in the early 1900's. Turner becomes friends with Lizzie Bright who is from a poor island community founded by former slaves. As he develops relationships with Lizzie and others from the town, he faces prejudice and other social difficulties. It is interesting to watch the growth of the characters as they face adversity. While the book addresses some tough topics, it also has its lighter moments as well...more

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Oct 26, 2011

Natasha rated it

Recommended to Natasha by: Suzette Gee

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Lizzy Bright is a "colored" girl who lives on Malaga Island in Maine. Turner Buckminster is the son of the new minister in the nearby town, Phippsburg. He isn't readily accepted by the boys of the town, in fact, he gets bullied pretty bad. This novel is the growing-up story of Turner, learning to stand up for what's right even when everyone else is against you. Turner befriends certain people, and bad things seem to happen to all of them. Mrs. Hurd is taken to the asylum so that her so...more

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Jul 27, 2011

Jeannie rated it

Devastating and beautiful. A lingering read, but worth it. The story takes place in the early 1900s and is based on real events that destroyed a community in coastal Maine. Turner and Lizzie forge a deep friendship despite racial barriers but can they ultimately overcome the corruption and prejudice of the town's elders?
This book is certainly a good historical read, but I found myself thinking about gentrification in Washington D.C. and what that means to a city in which the African-Ame...more

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Jun 08, 2011

Jessica rated it

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I'm sorry to say I didn't like this book at all. It wasn't terrible, I just found it terribly boring. I actually fell asleep twice while reading it, and almost fell asleep a bunch more times throughout. I think it's just Gary Schmidt's writing style. I've never been very fond of overly descriptive narration. At least half of this book is just description, and most of it not essential description, or at least it felt like it to me. I also didn't like the ending. I understand that this book was ba...more

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Mar 12, 2011

Haley B rated it

Gary D. Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy is a book about a late nineteenth-early twentieth century teenage boy who has to go against the people of Phippsburg, Maine, to agree with his conscience. Turner Buckminster III is the son of a minister who strongly desires to escape his life and "light out for the territories." Being a minister's son requires a picture-perfect image that is nearly impossible to reach. Ridiculed by many and constantly judged by the townsp...more

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Mar 01, 2011

Linda Lipko rated it

Shelves: american-history, young-adult

Once again Schmidt did it! He wrote an outstandingly beautiful book dealing with very complex, gritty issues.

This book was written before The Wednesday Wars and received the 1995 Newbery Honor award. It is particularly poignant, outstandingly breathtaking and incredibly tragic.

Based upon true occurrences of race-related issues in Phippsbubrg, Maine, the setting is the early 1900's wherein an interracial community of African Americans, who were rich in values and culture, ...more

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Jan 09, 2011

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A fantastic read! This book takes place in Maine in the early 1900's when a young boy, Turner Buckminster, moves from Boston so his father can be the new town minister of Phippsburg. immediately, Turner feels like he will not fit in when his style of baseball difers from that of the local boys and his is afraid to jump off the cliffs into the icy ocean water. When he goes to spend some time alone on the beach, away from t...more

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Dec 08, 2010

Julie rated it

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The first Gary Schmidt book I read was First Boy, which was a disaster of a book for me. Schmidt came to speak to my class a couple of months ago and I resolved to give him another read. Lizzie Bright, though not technically "southern literature", deals with many of the same themes so brilliantly that it secured a place in my heart. Schmidt gives a great deal of history along with a moving tale about what it means to be Christian in a segregated world. Turner is such an interesting...more

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Dec 08, 2010

Jenna rated it

I really enjoyed reading this book. I love historical fiction and it is part of the reason why I decided to be a history major. When I read a novel like Lizzie Bright, it makes me want to study the subject more, find out what really happened and why. Historical fiction has the ability to grab my interest and make me really feel for the characters. I want to be a history teacher because history is about stories, people, and cultures. Too often, historians take the stories out of history and ...more

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Dec 08, 2010

Megan rated it

In this novel, a young minister's son, Turner, moves with his family to the small coastal town of Phippsburg. Turner arrives at Phippsburg asa a young boy, unable to hit a baseball iwth a softball pitch, and the story ends when he has matured and been enlightened with burning knowledge of the world. Much of this burning knowledge was ascertained by reading Charles Darwin's works, but even more of the knowledge came from his experiences with death and hardship. He witnesses the town weed out t...more

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Nov 11, 2010

Kristin rated it

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy was definitely a cute book. The characters were mostly stock characters though, which was disappointing. The main character, Turner, learns a lot from his father, his mother, Darwin, and the girl he meets on Malaga Island, Lizzie Bright. He learns to stand up for himself, even when it went against his parents' wishes. The theme of racism is very strong in this book, and Turner aims to fight the racism of the town elders, but ultimately fails. This book is tr...more

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Oct 29, 2010

Sydney White rated it

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The story of Lizzie Bright and the Bunkminster boy is very captivating due to the dynamic relationships and social problems that it brings to light from page one. Turner immediately gains a sense of trust and connection with readers when he comes to Phippsburg. Everyone has felt lonely, out of place, and made fun of before. The narrative is also key to this development of realistic relationships. We see this mental and emotional development through Turner himself. The developmental range of char...more

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Oct 01, 2010

Sarah rated it

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
by Gary Schmidt

Coming of age/racism/father-son relationship/Christian faith

Turner Buckminster, the ministers son, moves into the small town of Phippsburg Maine and finds himself struggling to fit in. The town is rigid and unaccepting, and Turner is absolutely miserable. When he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin and experiences life on Malaga Island for the first time he begins to understand what real happiness and freedom feel like. Wh...more

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Aug 03, 2010

Kim rated it

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I was so engaged by this book. The tragic, historically accurate basis of the story is utterly compelling and led me to read up on the history of Malaga Island and Phippsburg, which I think is a sign of excellent 'historical fiction.'

I love how Schmidt makes the setting another character. This works especially well in the story of Tucker who is unwilling brought to Phippsburg, a town where not even baseball is played how it was in Boston. He is not only a city boy thrust into life in...more

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Jul 20, 2010

Charley Harpole rated it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book takes place in 1912. Reverend Buckminster had just moved to Maine from Boston with his son, Turner. He is constantly being teased and bullied by the other boys in Phippsburg because he plays baseball differently. Then something socking occurs for the white supremacist in this community when Turner becomes friends with Lizzie, her family, and other black members of the community. Because Tucker had to deal with prejudice or influenced by wealth, he only wanted to do what was right by t...more

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Jul 02, 2010

Karen rated it

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Jun 10, 2010

Melissa rated it

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Turner is bullied, beaten, struck out, and left out on a raft.
Not a pleasant welcome for the preacher’s kid to Phippsburg, Maine.
I adored author Gary Schmidt’s juvenile novel, The Wednesday Wars, and wanted to follow it up with another of his offerings. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, did not disappoint.
From the moment Turner moves to Phippsburg, it seems that everything that can go wrong does: he irritates an elderly resident to the point where he must serve his “time...more

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May 20, 2010

Cat Conner rated it

Recommends it for: fans of historical fiction and "Huckleberry Finn".

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Schmidt weaves a delightful and gripping tale as he explores themes of friendship and racism in this historical novel. When Turner Buckminster moves to Maine from Boston, he finds himself in a small, conservative town where his father is the new minister. Turner finds it hard to fit in, as he has a spunky and rebellious streak. Plus, he always seems to be getting his starched church shirts dirty and the neighbors riled up. Turner finds solace in this turn of the 20th century tale when he mee...more

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May 16, 2010

Lars Guthrie rated it

In 'The Wednesday Wars', Schmidt visited the Vietnam War era. Here he goes back to 1912, just as successfully. But calling 'Lizzie Bright' an historical novel, though it is based on real events, is too limiting.

Like 'Wednesday Wars,' it's about a boy growing up and beyond his father, helped along by a spunky girl and some wise women. Unlike that book, though, it's not completely about finding happy endings. The town of Phippsburg, Maine, did evict the black settlers of neighbor...more

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Apr 13, 2010

Katie added it

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Genre: diverse populations

Number of Pages: 219

Grade level/age: 6th-12th

Theme: friendship, race relations,racism

Summary:
Turner Buckminster moves to Phippsburg, ME with his mother and father, the new pastor of the local church. On an island just off the coast of Phippsburg resides a community of outcasts. Lizzie Bright is a member of this community. Lizzie and Turner quickly become close, unlikely friends in time when such relationships...more

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Feb 03, 2010

Sirpa Grierson rated it

Shelves: fiction, history, young-adult

Delightful. Based on historical circumstances, Schmidt, an English professor, sets this award-winning story of friendship and coming-of-age on the Maine coastline in Phippsburg, a town near Malaga Island. The time period is about 1905, when the publication of Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" shocked a nation from their slumber. Rich with descriptions of the coastline and the Atlantic shore, the book is evocative without overly long passages. I emerged, having climbed with Tur...more

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Gary D. Schmidt is an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels, including two Newbery Honor books. He lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan,with his wife and six children, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, feeds the wild cats that drop by and wishes that sometimes the sea breeze came that far inland. He is a Professor of English at Calvin College.

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