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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by ElizabethGeorgeSpeare (Author), KarenCushman (Introduction)

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    Paperback 2011

    $5.93

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    Paperback 2000

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    Hardcover 1995

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Published: 10 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 0547550294
ISBN 13: 9780547550299

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

Author Bio
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE (1908-1994) won the 1959 Newbery Medal for The Witch of Blackbird Pond and the 1962 Newbery Medal for The Bronze Bow. She also received a Newbery Honor in 1983 for The Sign of the Beaver, and in 1989 she was presented with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her substantial and enduring contribution to children's literature. Of her beginings as a writer working on Witch of Blackbird Pond she said: Then one day I stumbled on a true story from New England history with a character who seemed to me an ideal heroine. Though I had my first historical novel almost by accident it soon proved to be an absorbing hobby.