Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, published by Clarion Books, is a 2004 historical fiction book by Gary D. Schmidt. The book received the Newbery Honor in 2005 and was selected as a Michael L. Printz Honor that same year.

The book is set in 1912. Turner Buckminster, the son of a minister, has just moved from Boston, Massachusetts to Phippsburg, Maine and is constantly being teased for simple misunderstandings. Lizzie Bright and Turner become friends and have to save Lizzie's family and friends before they all get kicked off of Malaga Island. But that means standing up to the authorities, including Turner's father the reverend.

The book was based on a real event. In 1912, Phippsburgians decided to put the residents of Malaga Island in a mental hospital and clear the land to put up hotels.^{[citation needed]}