num_pages: 286
description: Witch trials in seventeeth-century Connecticut – a Newbery-Medal winning classic. 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. Kit's unconventional background and high-spirited ways immediately clash with the Puritanical lifestyle of her uncle's household, and despite her best efforts to adjust, it seems Kit will never win the favour of those around her.Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place, and just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit's friendship with old Hannah Tupper, who is believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined, and ultimately Kit is forced to choose between her heart and her duty.Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery Medal-winning novel portrays the life of a girl uprooted from her birthplace and yet unbound by the suppression of her new home, 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, Gershom Bulkeley, Judith Wood, Prudence Cruff, William Ashby, Katherine "Kit" Tyler, Matthew Wood, Nathaniel Eaton, Mercy Wood, Hannah Tupper, Rachel Wood
genres: Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Historical, Childrens, School, Young Adult, Witches, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 149628
places: The United States of America, Wethersfield, Connecticut
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Collins