I listened to it on CD while traveling, and so many times I wanted to pull my car over, rewind, and write down a quote from the book. . Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Turner doesn't hit it off with the local boys, but one day when beachcombing he meets Lizzie Bright--one of the young African Americans who live on the nearby Malaga Island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy is written for 6th to 9th grade students. The reason for their removal is economic, the town wants to develop the island and they don’t want to support the island residents on their welfare rolls. So much to like about this book: a great story pulled from history, well-rounded complex characters (and not just the main ones), a plot without a good deal of predictability, and a wonderful setting. Also includes sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Gary Schmidt’s Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.Sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt.FreeBookNotes has 3 more books by Gary Schmidt, with a total of 7 study guides.Cliff Notes ™, Cliffnotes ™, and Cliff's Notes ™ are trademarks of Wiley Publishing, Inc. SparkNotes ™ and Spark Notes ™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Turner Buckminster moves to Maine when his father takes a position as a minister in Phippsburg in the early 1900's. And maybe it's because my mom taught this book, but I love the personified descriptions of the landscapes.
By turns entertaining and angering, I couldn't put this book down until the harrowing yet satisfying conclusion.
I don't have any idea why I thought that this book would be without any of those harder themes; Gary Schmidt always deals with turmoil of some sort in his books. More soon.This was such a good book. They always feel real. He learns to stand up for himself, even when it went against his parents' wishes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor Book) Author(s) & Illustrator(s): Gary D. Schmidt. H and I are both reading this for a parent/child book club at church.
I needed to gather myself, order my thoughts, and reflect on everything I had just read. As Turner reads Charles Darwin's books, he begins to float away from Christianity, his father actually IMPROVES his mentality as he reads it with Turner, and at the end, strongly hints that Turner has converted to atheism. The hardcover cover illustration was . Welcome back. This book is trLizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy was definitely a cute book. This was a really good book.
I thought going in that it was going to be a sweet story of a summertime friendship taking place at the turn of the century - and it is in part, but if that's how I were to actually describe the book to someone...well, I'd be lying.
It was good, but I wouldn't have given it a Newbery honor book award.This is among the most boring books in existence. The characters were mostly stock characters though, which was disappointing. by Yearling Books Turner has even seen the clapboard parsonage beside the church his father will minister now that they are no longer in Boston and the small house beyond whose function he could not yet fathom (and soon enough would not believe).I enjoyed reading this book but at the start of the book, its slow and not much happens but, in the end, it heats up. And I was not expecting that. Not that I'm expecting to read a terrible lot more of them, but just thought I'd point that out.
Also there were too many deaths! I needed to gather myself, order my thoughts, and reflect on everything I had just read. And infuriating. It's got wonderful wit, great writing, real characters, numbing poignancy… I could just go on and on. And I love the lines in this—prison bars, the whale's eye, and being swallowed up by the world.This book is so gut-wrenchingly sad. In 'The Wednesday Wars', Schmidt visited the Vietnam War era. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. For the sake of the reader's health, this book needs to be taken down on all book shops across the globe and even online. well, off-putting for me, and I'm really glad they did something new, because this is a book not to be missed. I laughed, yelled, and cried in turn.
Beautiful writing, heartbreaking and beautiful story. He has looked out at the sea.
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