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Summary: Best historical fiction!
Review: Though this book is recommended for 6th grade and I'm only in 5th, this book was one of my favorites. It is exciting while it also gives you true historical information. The book truly deserves the Newbery Honor Award. It covers many different subjects, including love. The characters had personalities all their own. There was an amusing variety of personality. You go from soft-spoken John Holbrook to strictly puritan Matthew Wood to very vocal Gershom Bulkeley. This book was great!
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Summary: Essential reading!
Review: I first read this book when I was ten years old and now six years later I still condider this one of the best books that I have ever read. By reading the myriad of fantastic reviews already published for this book one already knows the basic plot of the story, but not only is the Witch of Blackbird Pond a wonderful story but it really teaches the young reader what life was like in New England during the time, what females felt over their oppresion, and the real fear that a women felt, knowing that no one was really brave enough to stand up agianst the mob to defend her if she was ever in trouble. Kit is a stranger to the world of Puritanism just like the reader and she discovers what life held for women in the time along with the reader. I belong to the class of thinking that believes it is very important to rember our history, and this book is a wonderful way to really get a child into the exitment that is American history!!
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Summary: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Review: First of all I did not like the book Witch of Blackbird Pond. It's not that the author didn't try, it's just that I hated the book. She may have won many awards for many books, but I don't thing this book desverd any recognition. The book may seem interesting to many others, but it seems like a reason to take a nap to me.It may be because I can't stand historical fiction, most of the time, or that I just didn't like the book. I've read her previous work , and they were very good, but this book just makes her work seem like a joke. I think the book should have a little more excitement before I give it any recogniton.
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Summary: An Excellent Novel! I loved it!
Review: 16 year old Katherine (Kit) has just made a weary journey from Barbados to New England by ship. She has almost been accused of being a witch, for normal girls do not know how to swim. Her first impression of America isn't too grand; dreary, cold, and wet. She misses her Grandfather and the warm shores of Barbados. When Kit reaches her relative's home, her mood is just dampened. Uncle Mathew is a strict Puritan, and he won't accept any of the fineries that Kit has brought along. Uncle Mathew's wife, Aunt Rachel, is a bit kinder. Rachel's two daughters, Mercy and Judith, are quite different. Mercy is a sweet, loving girl who is lame in one leg, and Judith is a snappy, yet beautiful girl (who sometimes became quite jealous of Kit.) Kit is homesick, and to get her mind off of things she helps Mercy run a dame school. All is fine until one mishap, and Kit runs off into the woods where she meets the "witch." Hannah, an old Quaker woman, is rumored to be a witch. All of the Puritans fear her, and she and her husband had to stay in prison for an x amount of years in Massachusetts for being Quakers. However, Hannah is a sweet old woman, and Kit becomes fast friends with her. Many characters come along in the story, and the plot thickens. You are permissed to meet the love-struck William, John, and the unexplainable Nat, who baffles Kit. I thought this book was excellent, and I feel that this is a classic!
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Summary: Awesome Book!!~
Review: This book started off pretty slow but it definately had enough excitement to keep me from putting the book down! I really liked the ending! It was one of those 'Awwwww moments'!!~ I bought this book for my step-daughter (7th grader) and decided to read it first. I finished it in 4 hours. I couldn't put it down and I'm not one who likes to read!~ A great book for a teenage girl (12-15).
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Summary: Interesting story, hokey love plot
Review: The Witch of Blackbird Pond centers around Kit Tyler, a 16-year-old Royalist from Barbados who journeys to Connecticut after her grandfather dies in 1687. She is unprepared for the vast difference between her sumptuous, free life in Barbados and the puritanical economy of Connecticut. From the beginning, she is obviously different-her clothing, her attitudes, her education, politics and religion. She fears she will never fit in, and is not sure she wants to. She befriends Hannah Tupper, against her uncle's wishes, an old woman who lives isolated on Blackbird Pond because she is a Quaker, a reviled religion at the time, and suspected of being a witch. The two isolated, "different" women create a small community that includes Nat, the son of the captain of the ship that transported Kit to New England, and Prudence, a neglected child Kit teaches to read. After trying unsuccessfully to fit in for months without giving up her own identity, Kit finally manages to become part of her uncle's family when her cousins become ill and she has to take over caring for the sick and all of the household duties. But the illness, which strikes many in the village, causes the suspicious and close-minded villagers to persecute the "witch" living on Blackbird Pond. Kit risks her own life to save Hannah. Despite her hard work and attempts to fit in, Kit is arrested and stands trial for being a witch.Kit's attempts to fit in while maintaining her independence are a very realistic adolescent experience. Used to a very free lifestyle, Kit does not realize she is doing things that others find shocking or strange. The first time she meets residents of her new home, she jumps into a river to save Prudence's doll. Invigorated by her brief swim, her spirits are dampened by the reactions of the others in the boat. Speare writes, "Shock and horror and unmistakable anger stared back at her" (9). Her innocent attempt to return a little girl's doll is met with immediate suspicion. Kit has no idea most people in New England cannot swim-she grew up swimming in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Kit's failure to fit in while not even realizing that she is doing things wrong is true to adolescents today, as well as in 1687. Teens feel isolated for so many reasons: they think they don't dress right, or they aren't accepted by the right clique, or they feel smarter or less smart than their classmates. Kit's main internal conflict centers on her desire to be independent while fitting in with the staunch Puritan society. She knows that her family and the villagers would not approve of her friendship with Hannah Tupper, but sneaks away to meet Hannah and Prudence anytime she is free. Kit asks Hannah, "What would happen if they found us out?" (173). Hannah gives her no answer, she merely states, "I know that soon thee would begin to consider that" (173). It is up to Kit to reconcile disobeying her family's implied order to stay away from Hannah with her desire to continue her friendship with Hannah, Prudence, and Nat. Kit's conscience wins out-she rescues Hannah from the mob at great risk to herself. She tells her uncle, "She's just a poor helpless old woman!" before she sneaks out to assist her (184). In helping Hannah, Kit resolves her internal conflict between being accepted and being true to herself. She chooses to be true to herself.
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Summary: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Review: The book that I was reading is called The Witch of Blackbird Pond. This book is by Elizabeth George Spearce. This book was amazing because the main character, which was Kit, expressed herself in a way no other characters express themselves.
In this book the main character is Kit, she is accused of being a witch. It all started on the ship the "Dolphin" because a little girl drops her doll in the ocean and Kit jumps after it to save it. Supposedly if you can swim that means that you're a witch, a "regular" girl would just sink. Kit denies it and says that her grandfather taught her.
There were some things I didn't like and some I did about the book. I liked the book because this reminded me of the Salem Witch Trails. I also liked this book because the book had many interesting settings. My last reason is because I liked the way Kit expressed herself towards the people around her. What I didn't like is that it didn't talk a lot about the title. Also I didn't like the way that she didn't talk about the other characters.
There were many settings in this book. The first setting was the "Dolphin" which is the ship Kit boardes on. The second setting is Connecticut. The third is mostly where the story took place after Kit got off the Dolphin, which is her Aunt's house. Lastly, Blackbird Pond is another setting. This book was historical fiction.
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Summary: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Review: I read the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond written by Elizabeth George Speare. The characters in this book are Katherine, Mercy, Rachel, Judith, Kit's uncle and aunt, Hannah, and Nat. The setting took place in a ship called The Dolphin, in Kit's uncle and aunt house, Hannah's house and the Meeting House.
I liked this book because it reminds me of the witch trials. Some of the things I didn't like about this book are that it talked a lot about political things and their religion. One part I liked the most was when Kit and Hannah were being accused as witches. Another part I liked was when the little girl thought that her doll was possessed and she threw it out then she wanted it back. The genre of this book is historical fiction.
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Summary: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Review: Can you believe the great book I have just finished? The great book I just finished reading is titled The Witch Of Blackbird Pond. The great writer that wrote this book is Elizabeth George Speare. The genre is Historical Fiction. This book takes place in Connecticut, in Blackbird pond, at Kit's aunt's house, and the "Dolphin."
This book is about a girl and he name is Kit and she used to live with her grandfather, but he died. Then before her grandfather died a guy wanted to marry Kit but she didn't want to. So she went aboard the "Dolphin" (a ship) and a little girl dropped he doll. So kit went to get it in the water and she knew how to swim. But when she came back she came back she was in a little bit of trouble because she was accused of being a witch, because "regular" girls would drown. Then she went to her aunt's house and they had a school in the summer, and Kit's cousin Mercy is the teacher. The they let Kit teach and she made a mistake and they didn't let Kit teach but then they gave he r a 2nd chance. At some point they tell kit that there is a witch in Blackbird pond and that she does witchcraft and she got in a lot of trouble for being a witch. In the end everything turns out all right for everyone because the two cousins found the perfect guy to marry and Kit finds freedom. So Mercy marries John Holbrook and Kit's other cousin Judith marries William Ashby.
I liked the book because the book was interesting like when they went to the pond and she met the witch. I also liked the book because they had little kids and I like little kids and I like little kids and because it talks about the problems that she went through to get accustomed to the new way of living. Another reason is that I liked it was that it took place in many different places not just in one place. I also didn't like the book because it was boring in some parts like the beginning of the journey, were I didn't find the story that interesting as the rest of the book.
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Summary: Witch Of Blackbird Pond is nice
Review: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare is a pretty good book. It's very exciting and there is some romance, I don't see why it hasn't been a movie yet. I wouldn't give it the newberry award, it's good but not that phenomenal.
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