Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
ISBN-10
0553494953
ISBN-13
9780553494952
Series
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Category
Clergy
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Yearling Books
Author
Gary D. Schmidt

Description

Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor island community founded by slaves that the town fathers want to change into a tourist spot.

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