About this title: Brought to new life by Barry Moser's stunning watercolor art, "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" is truly an American classic. Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery Award-winning novel portrays the life of a girl uprooted from her birthplace to live in colonial Connecticut in 1687. Full color.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780140303278ISBN:0140303278
Description: Good. This is an EX-LIBRARY COPY. We only offer carefully selected, quality books, in this category. The normal stamps and labels may be present and the front flysheet has been tidily removed. The supplying library will benefit financially from your purchase. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780440995777ISBN:0440995779
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Reading copy. Text in English. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780440995777ISBN:0440995779
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Chinese. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. s3 read more
"One of my favorite historical fictions...because it's not boring!
This is the way to travel back in time; follow Kit as she lands on the bleak shores of Connecticut during the Puritan times. Having grown up in Barbados with a loving grandfather, Kit is totally unprepared for the harsh, hard-working, god-fearing life of colonial America. Her new family; an aunt, uncle, and two cousins, have mixed feelings about the new addition to their household.
Kit finds solace with a old hermit woman named Hannah, a Quaker who is condemned as a witch by the townsfolk, and Nat, the fiery son of a merchant ship's captain. But can she weather the challenges that rage through the town, including accusations of witchcraft aimed at her?
Set against a backdrop of Patriots vs. Loyalists, witch hunts, and other historical happenings, this is not just some dull history tale; it is the story of a girl standing out amid a society hoping to squash her down, and finally finding the place she belongs in."
"I really tended to love books about girls who were different, who didn't fit into the times or places where they lived. I wonder why that might be? That was sarcasm, by the way. This tale of a girl sent to live in Puritan New England, who chafed against the rules of that society, is one I read again and again in circa 4th and 5th grades."
"This was one of my favorite books as a kid so when I saw the familiar cover in the free bin at the library I had to reread it. Oh free spirits in puritan times standing in windswept meadows..."
"Really I would give this book 3 1/2 stars. I liked it, but it moved a little slow for me. I enjoyed the historical fiction of the new settlements in the "new world" and also of the witch trials and superstitions. I also enjoyed the ending. I guess it was Kit getting into trouble all the time for silly things and the detail of her daily work and the courtships that I grew tired of."
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