The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a children's historical novel by American author Elizabeth George Speare, published in 1958. The story takes place in mid 17th-century to early 18th century New England. It won the Newbery Medal in 1959.
At the port, they greet each other. In 1687, 16-year-old Katherine Tyler, (known throughout the story as Kit) leaves her home in Barbados after her grandfather's death and goes to New England to live with her aunt a...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a children's historical novel by American author Elizabeth George Speare, published in 1958. The story takes place in mid 17th-century to early 18th century New England. It won the Newbery Medal in 1959.
At the port, they greet each other. In 1687, 16-year-old Katherine Tyler, (known throughout the story as Kit) leaves her home in Barbados after her grandfather's death and goes to New England to live with her aunt and uncle in Wethersfield, a small Puritan community in Connecticut Colony.
On the way to her new home, there is a brief stop in Saybrook, a small town just down river from Wethersfield, and four new passengers board the Dolphin, the ship on which Kit is travelling. As the small rowboat returns to the ship, a small girl named Prudence accidentally drops her wooden doll in the water, and begs her mother to get it back for her. Her mother, Goodwife Cruff, harshly strikes Prudence and tells her that she had just gotten the doll from her grandfater...
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