Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster
Boy.
He had seen the island from the far ledges, standing with
his father and Sheriff Elwell and Deacon Hurd and
everyone else important in the town. A stony beach, a
stony ledge or two, some pines-a few toppled over with
their heads in the water, a few tilted, most of them still,
straight. There had seemed nothing on the island that
would set anyone but a gull to wishing that he could live
there.
But coming on it now, from the water, with Lizzie stroking
and angling her way to the point, Turner felt as if he was
on the brink of a discovery.... Turner felt the world
moving slowly and anciently beneath him, and he began
to sway back and forth with the waves, with the trees,
with the rolling globe itself.
This excerpt highlights the conflict between
O the Phippsburg townspeople, who do not think much
of Malaga Island, and Turner, who comes to love the
island.
Turner's father, the sheriff, and the deacon, who all
have opposing views of Malaga Island.
O the townspeople who live on the side of Phippsburg
facing Malaga Island and the townspeople who live on
the other side of the town.
Turner, who lives in the town of Phippsburg, and
Lizzie Bright, who lives with her grandfather on
Malaga Island.