Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Title: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Publisher: Clarion Books
Date: 2005
Reading Level: 9+
Reading Level: 9+
Number of Pages: 219
Genre: Historical Fiction
Summary of plot: Story is about a boy named Turner who is he new Prechers son in their home in Maine. He is kind of the out cast of the town when he can't play baseball like the rest of them when he refuse to jump off the cliff into the water and so forth. He ends up haveing to read and play the organ for an old lady name Mrs. Cobb who ends up leaving him her house when she passes away. He becomes friends with a girl named Lizzie Bright but isn't really allowed to hang out with her at first because she is black. In the end Lizzie and her people are pushed away and lizzie is killed. His father is killed and him and his mother move into Mrs. Cobbs house.
Readers Reaction: I really like this book until it got to the end. Then I just got really angry because I didn't like how everyone was dieing in the end.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Summary of plot: Story is about a boy named Turner who is he new Prechers son in their home in Maine. He is kind of the out cast of the town when he can't play baseball like the rest of them when he refuse to jump off the cliff into the water and so forth. He ends up haveing to read and play the organ for an old lady name Mrs. Cobb who ends up leaving him her house when she passes away. He becomes friends with a girl named Lizzie Bright but isn't really allowed to hang out with her at first because she is black. In the end Lizzie and her people are pushed away and lizzie is killed. His father is killed and him and his mother move into Mrs. Cobbs house.
Readers Reaction: I really like this book until it got to the end. Then I just got really angry because I didn't like how everyone was dieing in the end.
Potential Problems: Racism and fight that ended in blood and one ending in death, mild swearing.
Recommendation: Teen age kids and even some adults might enjoy it.
Recommendation: Teen age kids and even some adults might enjoy it.
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