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| Original Title: | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America Connecticut(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (1959), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1960) |
Elizabeth George Speare
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.99 | 129231 Users | 5811 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Author | : | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 1978 by Laurel Leaf (first published December 1st 1958) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Classics. Childrens |
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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 island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with the "witch" is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!Rating About Books The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Ratings: 3.99 From 129231 Users | 5811 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Read this as a teen and can't remember the plot to save my life now. I remember loving this author, though.Re-read 3.22.17I've read this book easily over 20, maybe 30, times yet it still remains one of my all-time favorites. ......................Re-read 2013I was around 11 years old the first time Mom read The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare out loud to us. That was a good year for read-out-louds. We were studying American history, and that meant Johnny Tremain, Carry On Mr Bowditch, Sign of the Beaver, and Calico Bush. My favorite, though, the book I picked up and read and
3.5 stars. Read this forever ago, and enjoyed it a lot then.
So. I read this for the first time since 5th grade.As a kid, the romance between Kit & Nat gave me great anxiety. I really wanted them to end up together. The idea that they might not was excruciating because it was SO OBVIOUS!!! that they were the OTP of this book...so when I picked it up again after so many years, I remembered little else about the story. But as an adult, two things stand out: the relationship between Kit & her uncle Matthew, & the complete lack of sexual menace in
Sticks and stones will break my bones,but words will never hurt me.... Well, unless you happen to be in court being tried for witchcraft: "You will listen to the charges against you."A clerk read from a parchment, giving full weight and due to every awful word."________ _____, thou art here accused that not having the fear of God before thine eyes thou hast had familiarity with Satan the grand enemy of God and man, and that by his instigation and help thou hast in a preternatural way afflicted
I know this is a classic. A Newberry award winner for juvenile fiction, I can hardly criticize such a loved book. Sadly, I did not read this when it was meant to be read, as a youth struggling to know it's more important to do the right thing than to fit in with what everybody else is doing.Important, worthy lesson, but after reading two young adult novels this week with very similar themes (does this happen to anyone else? I always seem to inadvertently read books in "themes"), I feel there is
Not anything like my preconceived notion, The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a wonderful young adult novel set in the late 1600s in New England among the Puritans. Kit Tyler has arrived on a ship from Barbados and doesn't fit in from her first moments in Connecticut when she reveals that she can swim. The neighbors think she must be a witch since she can float! Her relatives take her in reluctantly and Kit tried to make herself useful by working hard in this new grim environment, so unlike the
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