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The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Elizabeth George Speare. 4.02. 152,592 ratings7,466 reviews. 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.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Summary. In the spring of 1687, Katherine “Kit” Tyler arrives in Connecticut Colony. She’s from Barbados and has been traveling on a boat called the Dolphin for the past few weeks.
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About The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft! Also by Elizabeth George Speare.
Elizabeth George Speare. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1958 - Juvenile Fiction - 249 pages. In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, a girl faces prejudice and accusations of witchcraft in...
The Witch of Blackbird Pond. by Elizabeth George Speare, and published by Houghton. About. The setting of the story is Wethersfield, Connecticut and the heroine is Kit, a sixteen-year-old, who comes from the Barbados to make her home with relatives in the Puritan community. In that day, because it was generally accepted that one could be a ...
THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL CHAPTER ONE ON A MORNING in mid-April, 1687, the brigantine Dolphin left the open sea, sailed briskly across the Sound to the wide mouth of the Connecticut River and into Saybrook harbor. Kit Tyler had been on the forecastle deck since daybreak, standing
