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The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner Hardcover - 1958

by Elizabeth George Speare

Forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met, Kit arrives in colonial Connecticut and struggles to survive in a hostile place.


Summary

Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit’s friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined and ultimately forces Kit to choose between her heart and her duty.
Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Award–winning novel portrays a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.

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Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit's friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined and ultimately forces Kit to choose between her heart and her duty.

Elizabeth George Speare won the 1959 Newbery Medal for this portrayal of a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.

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  • Title The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner
  • Author Elizabeth George Speare
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, Boston
  • Date 1958-12-01
  • ISBN 9780395071144 / 0395071143
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 850
  • Themes
    • Holiday: Halloween
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects New England, Puritans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 58011063
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“The book has a lively plot and excellent characterizations. The background has every dimension of reality.” The New York Times

“Rarely has a book taken us back into seventeenth-century life as this does.” The New York Herald-Tribune

"Strong plot, fully realized characters, and convincing atmosphere distinguish this historical narrative." Booklist, ALA

Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 09/04/2015, Page 44
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