{"id":5673,"date":"2010-03-05T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2016-07-04T21:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:21:02","slug":"lizzie-bright-and-the-buckminster-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/catalog\/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=100360\" target=\"_blank\">Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/clarion\" target=\"_blank\">Clarion Books<\/a> an Imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/a><br \/>\n2004-05-24<br \/>\n224 pages<br \/>\nTrim Size: 5.50 x 8.25<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13\/EAN: 9780618439294 ; $15.00<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-10: 0618439293<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/academic\/engl\/faculty\/schmidt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary D. Schmidt<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/catalog\/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=100360\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/assets\/product\/0618439293_hres.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Winner of the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phippsburg,_Maine\" target=\"_blank\">Phippsburg, Maine<\/a>. No one in town will let him forget that he&#8217;s a minister&#8217;s son, even if he doesn&#8217;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&#8217;s-and the town&#8217;s-disapproval of their friendship, Turner spends time with Lizzie, and it opens up a whole new world to him, filled with the mystery and wonder of Maine&#8217;s rocky coast. <strong>The two soon discover that the town elders, along with Turner&#8217;s father, want to force the people to leave Lizzie&#8217;s island so that Phippsburg can start a lucrative tourist trade there.<\/strong> Turner gets caught up in a spiral of disasters that alter his life-but also lead him to new levels of acceptance and maturity. This sensitively written historical novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5660\" target=\"_blank\">based on the true story of a community&#8217;s destruction<\/a>, highlights a unique friendship during a time of change. Author&#8217;s note.<\/p>\n<p>Read a book review by the 7th grade students at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bms.rsu1.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bath Middle School<\/a><\/em> in Bath, Maine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bms.rsu1.org\/red\/malagawebsite\/lizzie.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Clarion Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-05-24 224 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Hardcover ISBN-13\/EAN: 9780618439294 ; $15.00 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0618439293 Gary D. Schmidt, Professor of English Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Winner of the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor. It only takes a few hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,15,20],"tags":[2383,2384,10049,1135,2381,2379],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-clarion-books","tag-gary-d-schmidt","tag-gary-schmidt","tag-houghton-mifflin-harcourt","tag-maine","tag-malaga-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48109,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/48109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}