Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

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Call Number: Y BOCD Fiction / Schmidt, Gary
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids 4-week checkout	Y BOCD Fiction / Schmidt, Gary	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Read by Sam Freed.
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

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intense and tragic submitted by camelsamba on June 22, 2015, 5:17pm Based on true events, this story is a tragedy through and through. The writing is lyrical and beautiful, but the story is hard to endure. Because of the intensity it seemed more like a YA than a middle grades book.

I read this aloud to my youngest (recently turned 12). It's difficult for me to explain why, but it was hard to read aloud (sometimes hard to convey what segments are Turner thinking/remembering - e.g. the "I almost touched a whale", etc.). It would be interesting to see how the narrator in this BOCD handles those shifts.