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Wow, this was good. And infuriating. And heartbreaking. I laughed, yelled, and cried in turn. I loved the way the sea breeze is itself a character, and how much a few of the human characters surprised me.
My biggest complaint is that I found myself wishing to hear parts of this story from the perspective of Mrs. Buckminster, or Mrs. Cobb, or, most of all, Lizzie Bright herself.
For the Pop Sugar Challenge, this was my "book that makes you cry." ...more
My biggest complaint is that I found myself wishing to hear parts of this story from the perspective of Mrs. Buckminster, or Mrs. Cobb, or, most of all, Lizzie Bright herself.
For the Pop Sugar Challenge, this was my "book that makes you cry." ...more
Gary D. Schmidt writes such wonderfully nuanced characters. Sometimes the characters develop over the course of the book and sometimes our understanding of them is what develops. In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Mr. Schmidt takes some true events and sketches in details around them. I didn't know this going in so I found myself wondering why some characters weren't changing or unfolding and showing us other qualities as they did in the previous Gary D. Schmidt book I read, Okay for Now,
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Love the style of writing
Dec 12, 2011
Dana Fontaine
marked it as to-read
Oct 11, 2015
Teresa
marked it as to-read
