The Witch of Blackbird Pond: Illustrations by Barry Moser - Hardcover

Speare, Elizabeth George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395913675 ISBN 13: 9780395913673

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

Kit Tyler, a young girl from Barbados, visits her Puritan relatives in Connecticut only to become the object of a seventeenth-century witch hunt, in a re-release of a 1959 Newbery Award Winner with new illustrations.

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Review:

Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her. In the colonies of 1687, a girl who swims, wears silk and satin gowns, and talks back to her elders is not only headstrong, she is in grave danger of being regarded as a witch. When Kit befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, it is more than the ascetics can take: soon Kit is defending her life. Who can she count on as she confronts these angry and suspicious townspeople?

A thoroughly exciting and rewarding Newbery Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book, Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond brings this frightening period of witch hysteria to life. Readers will wonder at the power of the mob mentality, and the need for communities in desperate times--even current times--to find a scapegoat. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0395913675
• ISBN 13: 9780395913673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205
• Illustrator: Moser Barry