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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Author: Gary Schmidt
It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father's-and the town's-disap...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307207258
ISBN-10: 0307207250
Publication Date: 8/2005
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Publisher: Listening Library
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Other Versions: Audio CD
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This was a most delightful book - good for young and old alike. We already knew about dispossession of the inhabitants of Malaga Island, since we live not far from from there. In August of 2010, there was an article published in "Downeast" magazine about this despicable act. I think the book, although fiction, portrayed the events credibly. Although this was certainly a dark blot in Maine's history,I enjoyed the book immensely.


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