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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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SEACOAST BOOKS
Who better to review a novel written for young people than an honest-to-goodness
kid? So we asked 11-year old correspondent Sarah Burke to review the copy of this
new book we received from Clarion Press. It takes place on the Seacoast in nearby
Maine. Sarah is a big reader and her complete review follows.
Reviewed by Sarah Burke, age 11
Lizzie Bright is a great children’s book for kids around the ages of 10-14 for
many reasons. For one, it is very realistic; it reflects true events that can
happen. It’s also so descriptive it is able to plant a clear picture in your head
of the setting, feelings, and other things that make up this story. Not to mention
how great of a movie it would make!
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy is about Turner Buckminster, a boy who has just moved from Boston, Massachusetts
to Phippsburg, Maine where nothing there is the same. His first adventures involve
being teased for being a minister’s son and getting in lots of trouble for things
that were simple misunderstandings. He cannot find anything good about Phippsburg,
that is, until he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, an African-American girl that lives
on nearby (poor) Malaga Island. Lizzie shows Turner how to do just about everything
Maine-style. But when the people of Phippsburg want to destroy Malaga, who will
Turner stand with? His friend and what is fair, or his father and the town of
Phippsburg? In a fight to claim Malaga, Turner and Lizzie are caught in a series
of disasters that will change all that they know.
As you might have been able to tell from this summary, the events in this story
are very realistic. Malaga is an island that had been destroyed and made into
a hotel by the people of Phippsburg in 1912. I think it reflects our own lives
in saying that not everything will always be the ways you want it to be. Not everyone’s
life is going to be a perfectly happy ending. This book certainly doesn’t have
one.
To go along with how realistic it is, it’s also very descriptive. Even though
I’ve never been to Phippsburg I have a good idea of what it looked like in 1912
because of the description. Everything seemed so real and I was never confused
like I am with other books. In other books the places seemed to keep changing
what they looked like and didn’t make sense.
There’s one more thing about the book that ties in with everything I’ve said;
it would make a great movie! For the longest time I have been going over in my
head scenes for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (if it became a movie). I am telling everyone who reads this, I what to see
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy on the big screen!
So I hope I have made my point to everyone about how great this book is! To everyone
who has the power to do this, I would love to see the movie Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy in theaters!!! Even if it stays a book, I am just glad that Gary D. Schmidt
wrote it! You won’t be sorry you read it!
Review by Sarah Burke copyright 2004 SeacoastNH.com. All rights reserved.
READ: More writing by Sarah Burke
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
By Gary D. Schmidt
Clarion Books
ISBN: 0618439293; $15.00
Juvenile Fiction / History
Hardcover; 224 pages. $15
From the Publisher:
It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg,
Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if
he doesn'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's-and the town'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's rocky coast. The two soon discover that the town elders,
along with Turner's father, want to force the people to leave Lizzie's island
so that Phippsburg can start a lucrative tourist trade there. 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, based on
the true story of a community's destruction, highlights a unique friendship during
a time of change.
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