The Witch of Blackbird Pond /
Speare, Elizabeth George. 1908-1994, author.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare. - New York : Laurel Leaf, 1993, c1958. - 223 pages ; 18 cm
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she left behind. She feels like a caged and lonely tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world in her relatives stern Puritan community. The only place she feels completely free is in the meadows where she enjoys the company of an old Quaker woman known as the witch of Blackbird Pond. She is viewed with suspicion and fear and is accused of witchcraft herself when her friendship with the witch is discovered.
RL: 6.1. 12 and up.
Newbery Medal, 1959
0440995779
lwb96003472
Prejudices--Fiction.
Puritans--New England--Fiction.
Witchcraft--New England--Fiction.
Connecticut--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution.
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare. - New York : Laurel Leaf, 1993, c1958. - 223 pages ; 18 cm
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she left behind. She feels like a caged and lonely tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world in her relatives stern Puritan community. The only place she feels completely free is in the meadows where she enjoys the company of an old Quaker woman known as the witch of Blackbird Pond. She is viewed with suspicion and fear and is accused of witchcraft herself when her friendship with the witch is discovered.
RL: 6.1. 12 and up.
Newbery Medal, 1959
0440995779
lwb96003472
Prejudices--Fiction.
Puritans--New England--Fiction.
Witchcraft--New England--Fiction.
Connecticut--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution.
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