num_pages: 256
description: Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1867. 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’s Newbery Award–winning novel portrays a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.
language: English
title: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
titlecomplete: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
characters: John Holbrook, Mercy Wood, Hannah Tupper, Katherine "Kit" Tyler, Gershom Bulkeley, Judith Wood, Matthew Wood, Prudence Cruff, William Ashby, Nathaniel Eaton, Rachel Wood
genres: Fiction, Historical, Witches, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Romance, Classics, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 149643
places: Wethersfield, Connecticut, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Yearling