Sunday, January 29, 2006

Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy.Clarion Books, 2004
[0-618-43929-3
It is 1905 and Turner's dad is a minster who gets a new church in Maine and they move from Boston. Everything is so different. Everyone in town is concerned about how the minster's boy acts. There is a colony of African Americans squatting on an island off their town. Turner meets Lizzie, a girl from the island. This starts a whole stir as the town finds out. Part of his punishment is to play pump organ for a lonely old lady in town. Will Turner do what the town wants him to do? Will Turner's dad follow along with the town? What will happen to the black community? While this 219 page book starts out slowly, various plots and sub plots keep the reader entwined in the story.

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