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基本信息·出版社：Yearling Books
·页码：224 页
·出版日期：2006年04月
·ISBN：0553494953
·条形码：9780553494952
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. Lizzie shows Turner a new world along the Maine coast from digging clams to rowing a boat next to a whale. When the powerful town elders, including Turner’s father, decide to drive the people off the island to set up a tourist business, Turner stands alone against them. He and Lizzie try to save her community, but there’s a terrible price to pay for going against the tide.
作者简介 Gary D. Schmidt has written several novels for children and young adults. He lives in Alto, Michigan.
编辑推荐 From School Library Journal Grade 6-9–Gary Schmidt's Newbery Honor and Printz Honor winning book (Clarion Books, 2004) gains a new dimension in this recording. Prejudice and intolerance are a way of life in this fictional tale set into the historical reality of 1912 Maine. Turner Buckminster has very recently arrived and already he can't stand the small coastal town of Phippsburg. Within the first few days, the town's unfavorable impression of him is set; not only is he unable to hit a baseball thrown the Maine way, but he acts in a manner unbecoming to a minister's son, earning himself a summer's worth of playing hymns on the organ for crotchety Mrs. Cobb. Ostracized by most of the town's inhabitants, Turner meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, who lives on nearby Malaga Island, which was settled by former slaves. Turner and Lizzie become fast friends despite resistance from the town as well as from Turner's minister father, who is already feeling the backlash of his son's transgressions from his new congregation. Phippsburg town elders and Turner's father wants the residents of Malaga to leave so that their town can be turned into a tourist hot spot, and they're willing to do just about anything to make that happen. Schmidt's lyrical language describing the seasons and the sea breeze makes the setting come to life, making it another character that weaves its way throughout the entire story. Flashes of humor, temper, and an aching melancholy, along with a variety of Maine accents for the assorted townsfolk color veteran actor Sam Freed's narration of this title that should be in all libraries.–
Charli Osborne, Oxford Public Library, MI Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist *Starred Review* Gr. 7-12. Turner, the rigid minister's son, doesn't fit in when his family moves from Boston to the small town of Phippsburg on the coast of Maine in 1912. It's not only that Maine baseball is different from the game he knows; he's just plain miserable. Then he makes friends with a smart, lively young teen, Lizzie Griffin, living in a small, impoverished community founded by former slaves on nearby Malaga Island. When the town elders drive Lizzie's people off the island, Turner stands up for them, but he can do nothing. Lizzie eventually dies in an insane asylum. The novel may be too long and detailed for some readers, with every plot strand and character accounted for. But the removal of the Malaga community really happened, and Schmidt weaves that history into a powerful tale of friendship and coming-of-age, adding a lyrical sense of the coastal landscape. Characters are drawn without reverence in this haunting combination of fact and fiction that has a powerful and tragic climax.
Hazel RochmanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review “Schmidt’s writing is infused with feeling and rich in imagery. With fully developed, memorable characters. . . . This novel will leave a powerful impression on readers.”
—School Library Journal, Starred
“A powerful tale of friendship and coming-of-age, adding a lyrical sense of the coastal landscape.”
—Booklist, Starred
