The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare

Subjects: Relationships (Romantic)
Genre: Historical Fiction

The Seventeenth Century is known for its witch hunts. It is 1678 and Kit moved from Barbados to the Puritan Connecticut Colony. On her way to the colony, Kit jumps overboard and swims and rescues a child's doll. Little did she know that act would cause a cascade of events. You see, you shouldn't be able to swim. If you can swim you are a witch and are hung or burned. If you can't swim, you drown. Either way you lose. She is a free-spirited, outspoken young woman who is suddenly thrust into a stifling environment. She is strange and people are suspicious of her. What's worse, she is actually associating with a known witch, Old Lady Hannah, a Quaker. A fever breaks out an children start to die. She is accused of witchcraft. Will she be convicted? Will she hang? To find out read The Witch of Blackbird Pond. 

Booktalk prepared by Janice Bailey, East Central High Librarian