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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 10,437 Ratings and 1,792 Reviews

Book Description
[set star] "Both beautiful and emotionally honest, both funny and piercingly sad."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review Turner Buckminster hates Phippsburg, Maine. Then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart, sassy girl from a poor nearby island community. Lizzie introduces Turner to the wonders of Maine's coast. But the two soon discover that the town elders, along with Turner's father, want to forc... More
Book Information
PublisherSandpiper
BindingPaperback
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages224
ISBN-100544022793
ISBN-13978-0544022799
Publication Date05/14/2013
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About Gary D. Schmidt (Author) : Gary Schmidt is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and a Newbery Honor fo... more
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