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 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt - Book Review
Cobb, a crusty old racist who learns to love a black girl and an ill-mannered boy; Willis, who seems to be a bully but has an ironclad sense of what’s right; his father, Deacon Hurd, whose pride goeth before a fall; and many others, a Dickensian wealth of real characters.
Based on true events, which readers may want to research, this tragic novels offers much for discussion: in addition to its depiction of New England racism, there are relationships of many kinds to explore, moral growth and change in several characters, majority vs. minority rights, and unintended consequences of one’s actions.
And evolution is not just individual -- the relationships and understandings between the characters change, and change again.
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 Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of African American Artists - Hardware @ US MacLinks.net Apple Store
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor Book)
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 Book Lists - Middle/High Schools
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt, Honor
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman, Winner
Wake Up Our Souls: a celebration of Black American Artists, by Tonya Bolden.
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 Calvin College - News - Calvin Prof's Book Wins Newbery Honor
Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (published by Clarion Books) was named both a 2005 John Newbery Honor Book and a 2005 Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy was one of just three books named as winners of the 2005 Newbery Honor Award.
Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata, won the 2005 Newbery Medal - named for 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery and awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association) to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
www.calvin.edu /news/releases/2004_05/lizzie.htm   (703 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor Book): Books: Gary D. Schmidt
Reverend Buckminster, Parker Head, First Congregational, Malaga Island, Deacon Hurd, New Meadows, Lizzie Bright, Turner Buckminster, Willis Hurd, Sheriff Elwell, Reverend Griffin, Lizzie Griffin, Turner Ernest Buckminster, Lillian Woodward, Bald Head, Sewing Circle, The Origin of Species, Robert Barclay, The Change, Charles Darwin, Shall We Gather, Preacher Griffin, Jake Eason
Friendless and feeling the burden of being the new preacher's son, the 13-year-old is miserable until he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, the first African American he has ever met and a resident of Malaga Island, an impoverished community settled by freed or possibly escaped slaves.
It's only when he escapes to the seacoast and meets Lizzie Bright Griffin that things start to look up.
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 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor Book): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
Having finally finished, "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy", I see now that the 2005 Newbery year was one filled with books for older child readers.
I still wouldn't think that Lizzie Bright is Newbery worthy because it is too heavy themed with death, religious persecution, and the sentencing of the elderly to insane asylums.
Recognized with the Prinz Award for Young Adult Literature and a Newberry Honor Book, the story is not only engaging and serious, but also extremely well written.
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 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor Book) - $7.95
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Recognized with the Prinz Award for Young Adult Literature and a Newberry Honor Book, the story is not only engaging and serious, but also extremely well written.
When I was grousing about that fact to a librarian, she told me that the Newbery is often won by a compromise book, because the better books have such passionate devotees on the committee that they cancel each other out.
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 Calvin College - News - Calvin Prof's Book Wins Newbery Honor
Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (published by Clarion Books) was named both a 2005 John Newbery Honor Book and a 2005 Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata, won the 2005 Newbery Medal - named for 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery and awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association) to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
That's because Schmidt is in Massachusetts for the month of January with a group of Calvin students on the college's annual New England Saints interim, a three-week-long January class that focuses on American literature.
www.calvin.edu /news/releases/2004_05/lizzie.htm   (783 words)

  
 Teacher Librarian: TL Magazine
Three Printz Honor Books were named: Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, published by HarperCollins/EOS; Chandra's Secrets, by Allan Stratton, published by Annick Press; and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt, published by Houghton Mifflin/Clarion.
The award is named for the late Michael Printz, a Topeka, KS, school librarian known for discovering and promoting quality books for young adults.
teacher-librarian.com /tlmag/v_32/v_32_4_feature.html   (783 words)

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