Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the
moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut
in 1867. 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. Torn 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.
Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Award–winning novel portrays a
heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth
as well as her infinite capacity to love. In 1687 in Connecticut,
Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her
aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community
and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
關於作者:
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE 1908-1994 won the 1959 Newbery Medal
for The Witch of Blackbird Pond and the 1962 Newbery Medal for The
Bronze Bow. She also received a Newbery Honor in 1983 for The Sign
of the Beaver, 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?Witch of Blackbird Pond?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."
內容試閱:
On a morning in mid-April; 1687, the brigantine Dolphin left the
open sea, sailed briskly across the Sound to the wide mouth of the
Connecticut River and into Saybrook harbor. Kit Tyler had been on
the forecastle deck since daybreak, standing close to the