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Turner Buckminster was a minister's son. In 1912 his father got a job preaching in a small town, Phippsburg, Maine, so Turner had to leave Boston and his friends there. In Phippsburg the boys his age were obnoxious bullies toward him yet his father continually encouraged him to play baseball with them. He was miserable.
Turner isolated himself near the ocean where he met a black girl named Lizzie Bright Griffin. They became best friends and he was invited to visit her home on Malaga Island.
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Turner isolated himself near the ocean where he met a black girl named Lizzie Bright Griffin. They became best friends and he was invited to visit her home on Malaga Island.
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This is a wonderful, touching book about standing up.
"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." ...more
"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." ...more
Finally getting into the summer reading books on the third day of school...
Apr 24, 2016
Christy
marked it as to-read
