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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
Unexpectedly orphaned Kit Tyler must now move from her beloved Caribbean home and go to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Free thinking and unaccustomed to the devote Puritan ways of the tight community, Kit struggles to find a place for herself. It doesn’t help that Goodwife Cruff, a member of the community and fellow passenger on the sea journey over, has already formed a negative opinion of Kit. Feeling alone, even amongst her own relatives, she retreats to a special place in the meadows. It is here that she meets and befriends Quaker woman, Hannah Tupper. Hannah is kind and caring and Kit cannot understand her outcast from the town or everyone’s insistence that she is a witch. When an illness strikes the town, a mob ascends on Hannah’s home. When it discovered that Kit has helped her escape, Kit is quickly accused of witchcraft. Kit must bravely face the mean spirited Goody Cruff and the rest of the town to prove her innocence. An invigorating and daring story about the power of prejudices and the strength of one girl willing to stand up for what’s right and true.