Elizabeth George Speare
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.99 | 129231 Users | 5811 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America Connecticut(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (1959), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1960) |
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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!Describe Out Of Books The Witch of Blackbird Pond
| Title | : | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Author | : | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 1978 by Laurel Leaf (first published December 1st 1958) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Classics. Childrens |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 129231 Users | 5811 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books The Witch of Blackbird Pond
My last book of 2019. (So I lied a few hours ago about the other book I thought would be my last. But this one really is, I promise.)I recently recommended this book to a Good Reads friend because I had fond memories of it from childhood. Re-reading it now as an adult reminded me once again that I was a much more patient reader as a youngster than I am now. The book is well-researched and finely written, but it doesn't really get interesting until 40% of the way through when Kit finally meetsAhoy there mateys! This being Banned Books Week and having just finished a historical fiction about witchcraft in England, I thought it be high time to read the beloved favorite. I reread this in one delightful sitting.This book is a young adult historical fiction about a girl named Katherine, i.e. Kit, who is forced to leave her home in Barbados and move to Connecticut to live with her Aunt and Uncle. She goes from a care-free rich island lifestyle to a hard-working Puritan one in America. It
A serious favourite from my formative youth, strange and harsh and nearly illicitly romantic so that I reread it, no matter how much Kit's predicament upset and scared me (mobs and trials and institutions are some of my worst fears).Reading it quickly now - for the first time in English - many decades after first finding it in the small town library, I'm struck by how good a book it is. Many, amongst them the woman who "raised/formed" me as well as Narnia, crumble in retrospect, but there was a
So. I read this for the first time since 5th grade.As a kid, the romance between Kit & Nat gave me great anxiety. I really wanted them to end up together. The idea that they might not was excruciating because it was SO OBVIOUS!!! that they were the OTP of this book...so when I picked it up again after so many years, I remembered little else about the story. But as an adult, two things stand out: the relationship between Kit & her uncle Matthew, & the complete lack of sexual menace in
I know this is a classic. A Newberry award winner for juvenile fiction, I can hardly criticize such a loved book. Sadly, I did not read this when it was meant to be read, as a youth struggling to know it's more important to do the right thing than to fit in with what everybody else is doing.Important, worthy lesson, but after reading two young adult novels this week with very similar themes (does this happen to anyone else? I always seem to inadvertently read books in "themes"), I feel there is
Re-read 3.22.17I've read this book easily over 20, maybe 30, times yet it still remains one of my all-time favorites. ......................Re-read 2013I was around 11 years old the first time Mom read The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare out loud to us. That was a good year for read-out-louds. We were studying American history, and that meant Johnny Tremain, Carry On Mr Bowditch, Sign of the Beaver, and Calico Bush. My favorite, though, the book I picked up and read and
I really liked this book, and have therefore come to the conclusion that books written for children can be higher quality writing than books written for adults because there isn't this pressure to impress with heavy metaphor and poignant statements about life. When adults write for adults there is too much pressure, adults writing for children understand that it is the story and the characters that matter most, and if those two are well written then I think you have a deep, satisfying book.
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