Book Review: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"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."
 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9505677-the-witch-of-blackbird-pond

Elizabeth Spear was able to weave a story appropriate to her own time as well as Kit's. Her style of writing was so mesmerizing, that I could not put the book down until it was finished! Even though the setting of the story was in 1687, the concepts of bigotry, hatred, suspicion, cruelty and religious intolerance could be set in any era in time, even our own.