{"product_id":"the-witch-of-blackbird-pond-a-newbery-award-winner-9780547550299","title":"The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this Newbery Medal-winning novel, a girl faces prejudice and accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Connecticut. A classic of historical fiction that continues to resonate across the generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTorn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit's friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined and ultimately forces Kit to choose between her heart and her duty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE \u003c\/b\u003e(1908-1994) won the 1959 Newbery Medal for \u003ci\u003eThe Witch of Blackbird Pond \u003c\/i\u003eand the 1962 Newbery Medal for \u003ci\u003eThe Bronze Bow\u003c\/i\u003e. She also received a Newbery Honor in 1983 for \u003ci\u003eThe Sign of the Beaver\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 1989 she was presented with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her substantial and enduring contribution to children's literature. Of her beginings as a writer working on \u003ci\u003eWitch of Blackbird Pond\u003c\/i\u003e she said: Then one day I stumbled on a true story from New England history with a character who seemed to me an ideal heroine. Though I had my first historical novel almost by accident it soon proved to be an absorbing hobby.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Clarion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572809011474,"sku":"9780547550299","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0659967-d53e-4d07-a1d8-c4b249bdb4d6.jpg?v=1737303400","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-witch-of-blackbird-pond-a-newbery-award-winner-9780547550299","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}