Speare, Elizabeth George

The Witch of Blackbird Pond. - 2001 edition - Boston : Houghton Mifflinq, 1986. - Illustrated Amerian Classics .

Newbery Medal award winner

Kit's high spirited ways immediately clash with the Puritanical lifestyle of her uncle's household and despite her best efforts to adjust, it seems that Kit will never be able to fit into the Puritan village. Her friendship with the Quaker Hannah Tupper proves more taboo than she could have imagined, and ultimately Kit is forced to choose between her heart and her duty to her uncle.

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Intolerance
Discrimination
Quakers
Colonial American life--fiction
Witches--fiction