Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor Book) by Schmidt Gary D

Author:Schmidt, Gary D. [Schmidt, Gary D.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

After that, Lizzie always sang the hymns she knew, and Turner cut down on the high churchy tunes to accommodate her. She never spoke to Mrs. Cobb, though, and Mrs. Cobb never spoke to her. But Turner figured Mrs. Cobb's leaving the back door open was enough.

So the two weeks of Turner's sentence ended and he was free—or at least as free as any minister's boy could be. Malaga Island was still forbidden, but he began to explore the paths into the woods above Phippsburg and to hike along the peninsula's Kennebec shore and climb down to its barnacled rocks. Sometimes he found himself at Thayer's haymeadow, and he would stand at home plate and see the ball coming in hard and fast the way it was meant to, see it so clearly that he could make out the spinning of its seams and know which way it was about to curve.

He never saw Willis Hurd except at church, and then only because he had to. But there were times, especially down at the haymeadow, when he was so lonely he figured he might as well climb on the Gospel ship and head to Canaan's shore—if he couldn't reach the Territories—because he sure didn't want to come back anymore.

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Phippsburg cooled into autumn, and Turner spent an hour or so every morning moving wood into the shed closer to the house and splitting kindling—until he figured he had enough kindling to start a conflagration across the whole state of Maine. The maples shivered into their new finery. The oak leaves wrinkled at the edges, though they had no notion of going anywhere for quite a long while.

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