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  1. As a punishment, Turner is sentenced to go to the disagreeable woman’s house every day to read to her. Lizzie Bright Griffin lives on the tiny island of Malaga, just off the coast of Phippsburg ...

  2. Gary D. Schmidt’s Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (2004), an historical novel for young adults, received the Newbery Honor in 2005. It is based on actual events occurring on Malaga Island, Maine in 1912, when the government of Maine placed the residents of the island in a mental hospital and tore down their homes. Turner Buckminster is ...

  3. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy is a young adult historical novel by Gary D. Schmidt published by Clarion Books in 2004. The book received the Newbery Honor in 2005 and was selected as a Michael L. Printz Honor [1] that same year. The book was based on a real event. In 1912, the government of Maine put the residents of Malaga Island in a ...

    • Gary D. Schmidt
    • 2004
  4. May 24, 2004 · Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy has all the traditional and expected elements of a classic YA novel: coming of age story, not fitting in to a new place, bonding with the few other ostracized people of a community including selected old people who grow to love said outcast, frustration with parents, love in unexpected places, etc:. It has all the checklist elements needed in order to ...

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  5. Turner Buckminster, the son of a minister, befriends Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from the nearby island of Malaga, which is inhabited by a mostly African American community. The central conflict explores racism, community, and change as Turner fights against the town’s plans to evict the people of Malaga Island and erase their community.

  6. Nov 4, 2015 · Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy is a worthwhile read, if only because it makes the reader aware of an historical event they might otherwise overlook, but because of its narrow focus on one specific place, it would be hard to tie into a larger unit of study. Therefore, it probably won't be much use to me as a homeschooler for anything other than supplemental or recreational reading.

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