Elizabeth George Speare · 1958 · sea

Elizabeth George Speare's 1958 novel. Orphaned in sunny Barbados, Kit Tyler sails north to her aunt's family in stern Puritan Connecticut, where her free spirit makes her a stranger in Wethersfield. Her friendship with a lonely old Quaker woman by Blackbird Pond brings warmth - and an accusation of witchcraft that puts Kit herself on trial.

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   Barbados

   Kit's tropical home, a wealthy plantation island she must leave for good after her grandfather dies, sailing north aboard the brigantine Dolphin.

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   Saybrook

   The dreary first landfall at the mouth of the Connecticut River, where new passengers board and Kit is first suspected of witchcraft for swimming.

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   Wethersfield

   The strict Puritan town up the river where Kit lives with her aunt's family and befriends Hannah Tupper, the outcast of Blackbird Pond.