The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Rambling Readers

205 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-395-91367-3

(1 review)

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

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crabbygirl reviewed The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

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1 star

again: read for the GD summer challenge and a first time read. I didn't care for it. Kit, the main character, starts as a whiny complainer who obviously didn't think through her decision to leave the wealth and ease of Barbados for the unknown puritanism of the new world. I had little sympathy for her. head-strong and impulsive, she invited every danger that came her way. I imagine her willfulness would endear her to a younger reader, but I had no patience.

Subjects

Puritans -- Fiction.
Witchcraft -- Connecticut -- Fiction.
Prejudices -- Fiction.
Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.