THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND

Recommended in Program(s): Challenge I
Cycle(s): N/A

Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler gives up island life on Barbados to life with her aunt and uncle in a New England Puritan community. Struggling to fit in while staying true to herself, Kit finally finds a friend in Hannah Tupper, a woman accused of witchcraft. Through Kit’s journey, students contemplate the ways in which earthly freedom can be given or restricted, used with love or used with fear.

• Paperback
• 249 pages
• © 1958