Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Description:

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.

subjects: Race relations,  Fiction,  Moving, Household,  Clergy,  Household Moving,  Progress,  History,  Reading Level-Grade 5,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 6,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Juvenile fiction,  Moving,  Historical fiction,  Newbery Honor,  Children's fiction,  Maine, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  award:Newbery_award,  lexile:1000,  lexile_range:1001-1100,  age:min:10,  age:max:12,  grade:min:5,  grade:max:7

Places: Maine

Times: 20th century