Title The witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare

Published Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1967 ©1958

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Description 172 pages ; 18 cm Series Newbury medals books Summary In defying the ignorant opinion of the local Puritan community in a Connecticut village in 1687, a compassionate young woman risks being labelled a witch when she helps a widowed Quaker woman and a bullied child Notes "A Puffin book" -- Cover For children Previously published: Boston ; Houghton Mifflin, 1958 Winner of the Newbery Medal, 1959 Subject Children's stories, English. Puritans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction. Paranormal fiction. Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Fiction. Witches -- Fiction. SUBJECT Connecticut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79074102 -- Social life and customs -- 17th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008855 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Genre/Form Fiction. LC no. anb14030327 ISBN 0140303278

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