The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Puritan neighbors regard Kit Tyler with suspicion, dread, and rage when she befriends an ancient woman accused of witchcraft.Amazon.com Review
Forced to place 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, but, 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 ancient 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 mad and suspicious townspeople?
A painstakingly 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 marvel 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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I read this book for school, my sister said it would get better, but it turned out to be the worst book I’ve ever read. I rest my case.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was one I read in sixth grade and it was dull and slow. Not fantastic and I usually like books about witches for I am very interested in the topic and it is not unusual for I live in Massachusettts and as you know in Salem, Massachusetts was where they hanged witches. But the one flaw in this book was that it was dull and barely talked about Kit meeting up with the witch of blackbird pond and just told about her life basically from the barbadoes and her coming to Conneticut. Second of all the largest flaw in this book is that the witch hunt took place in Conneticut! Uh! Uh! I don’t reflect so. Conneticut is definetly not a setting for a witch hunt. That is definetly Massachusetts. You may have heard of witch hunts in Conneticut but a few and Massachusetts is of course the homeland for witch hunts in New England. Sorry Elizabeth George Speare but get your history right!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
In the beginning Kit sails to America to live with her aunt and uncle,from there you follow her through day to day pilgrim life. Kit dislikes the life of the pilgrim; she finds refuge at the house of an ancient lady at Blackbird Pond. The book does a fantastic job describing the history of this time period which is probably why it won the award.
But, I was seriously disapointed with the tale itself.
One of the main problems being that there is no plot of which to speak. Kit goes the U.S., nothing else happens, FINALLY, at long last the tale ends. Also, while I’m sure the leader envisioned Kit as a strong willed character, they do not show it very well; also there really isn’t any character development either, unless you count the last three pages.
Wondering why I chose to read this if I despised it so much? I didn’t choose, it was assigned for school reading.
Oh yeah, there is no actual “witch” of Blackbird Pond (lady, but not witch). So, in conclusion, only read this if you want to die of boredom.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
In the tale The Witch of Blackbird Pond written by Elizabeth George Speare. There is a girl named Kit. Her parents died when she was vary young and so her grandpa raised her. Her grandpa was a wealthy plantshen owner. After her grandpa died all her grandpas’ money was lost. So she sailed to America to meat and lives with her aunt. On the way there she met a vary nice boy named Nate. He was the captain’s son his mother was on the boat kit and her slept in the same cabin. When She got there they had to make one stop kit went ashore to see what it was alike in America she thought it was a gloomy place. When they were comeing back they brought some more people back with them. On the way were she was going the wind stopped so they were stock there for a small then the wined selected up and they ongoing moving agen. When they got there When they got there she unload 7 bags, every one was stoned about how many bags she had. When she got to her aunts house she told her tale and they let her stay. She had to cousins. Keenly they gave her chores she thought they were slaves jobs but they did not have eney . She thought the jobs were really hard. She had never done such hard things in her life. After a wile she met a vary wealthy boy. Then she met an ancient woman that every one thought was a witch but she was not. They met when she was crying in a meadow and the ancient women she thought her to her house and helped her with her problems. After a wile she founded out that Nate new her to. After a wile all of the towns teenagers ongoing getting sick and the ancient women new the remedy. Then the war of 1812 happened.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
First read it in 8th grade about 20 years ago in reading class. The teacher was a blonde Jewish hottie about 5′6″” in her early twenties named Miss Fee. The book is fantastic by itself, but taught by a excellent looking teacher makes it even better.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5