The author chose to tell Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy from the perspective of children rather than adults.

Telling the story through children’s perspectives lets readers see how the racial conflict affects young people personally. Turner and Lizzie experience the divisions and prejudice directly, so the perspective helps readers understand what it feels like to grow up amid the conflict. It does not prevent readers from understanding who is involved or why the conflict occurs; the strongest choice is that it shows how young people experience it.

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