Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy /
by Gary D. Schmidt.
- New York : Clarion Books, c2004.
- 219 p ; 22 cm.
Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal starred. Wilson's Junior High School.
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.