Title: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publishing: A Yearling Book
Number of pages: 217
Summary: This is about a Boy named Turner that is made to move when he dad gets offered a job as a minister on the coast of Maine Coast. This is about a story how he makes friends with a black girl named Lizzie and how he tries to help her and her family stay on Malaga Island. The main land wanted to drive them out cause they did not think that they are paying there way that they did not deserve their land and they don't properly own it so they must leave. Turner's dad in the beginning did not believe in him but in the end he losses his life by trying to help his son. In the end Malaga Island is made to move and they police sends them into a mental institutation which sadly they all end up dying there.
Reaction: This book was tragicly sad and it was hard to read due to the fact that this was something that actually happened. This made me sad that this could happen in the world but that was the time back then. Other then that the writing was very described it and was well worth the read.
Problems: People sometimes have trouble with reading about the history cause its not all that happy but people need to learn from the past so it doesn't happen again
Recommendations: To any one that likes history.
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