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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

by Gary D. Schmidt

Historical FictionYoung Adult

2004

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.

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