description: 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!
language: English
title: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
titlecomplete: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
characters: Hannah Tupper, Judith Wood, Mercy Wood, Matthew Wood, Gershom Bulkeley, William Ashby, Rachel Wood, Prudence Cruff, Nathaniel Eaton, Katherine "Kit" Tyler, John Holbrook
genres: Historical, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Witches
ratings_count: 149658
places: Wethersfield, Connecticut, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Listening Library