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Rhyming text and illustrations present the human desire to seek out the unknown and to learn as a result of it. Includes nonfiction author's note.

A lavishly illustrated survey of the history, prominent people, art and science of the period from 1851 to the First World War, with emphasis on the problems and achievements of the Industrial Revolution.

In 1912, thirteen-year-old Turner, son of the town's new minister, hates his new life in Maine until Lizzie, a girl from a nearby island community founded by former slaves, shows him the charms of Maine's coast. But their happiness proves short-lived when the town elders and Turner's father resolve to make the island a tourist spot and force Lizzie's people out.

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

Describes what life in America was like in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.