Witch of Blackbird Pond: Novel-Ties Study Guide

by Joyce Friedland, Rikki Kessler

Novel-Ties study guides contain reproducible pages in a chapter by chapter format to accompany a work of literature of the same title.

35 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1982

About the author

Joyce Friedland was the CEO of Learning Links, the publishers of Novel-Ties teachers' guides for children's literature.

Before her career in publishing, Friedland was a Reading Specialist at Great Neck Public Schools, where she developed and implemented reading and language arts programs in K–12 schools.

Reviews

[Liat K]

This book is about a girl who moves to Connecticut Colony from the Caribbean islands. She is faced with challenges and confusion in the new world she traveled to. Kit Tyler finds that she is only comfortable in the meadows alone and free. On one of her trips to the meadow she encounters a strange old woman know as the witch of blackbird pond. Strangely enough she enjoys the company of the bizarre woman. Later in the book things become difficult for Kit when her friendship with the woman leads her to being accused as a witch.

This book is good not great. First, the beginning isn’t very strong. Neither the first sentence nor the first page drew me into the story and made me want to read more the way it should. But, as I got farther into the story I started enjoying it more. Also the story line was predictable. I could keep guessing what major event was going to happen in the next chapter as I went along in the book. Lastly, I found the ending cute but too sudden in the story line. Overall this is a good book, but I didn’t really enjoy it that much.

[Joanna]

Again one of Elizabeth George Spears brilliant masterpieces. This is one of my absolute faveorites!It made me want to cry, laugh and scream all at the same time. As soon as you finish it you want to pick it right back up and read it all over again. I highly recomened it.
P.S. F.Y.I!! For those of you that are not so hot on reading books about witches this is a story set in the 1700`s when they falsely acused many women of witch craft.And that is the case in this particular story.

[Aubree]

this book was the bom.com i loved it, it reminded me of what the world is all about and i thaought it was so heart warming if you have not read this book i would recomend that you do you would most definetly cry at parts.

[Dawn]

cool witch craft story

[Jillyn]

Jen introduced me to this book last fall and I will now read it every fall! It is so good! Now that I am back in America I want to read more books about the pilgrims.. I honestly love this book!

[James]

This book isntthe greatest. i wouldnt recomend it for people who get bored easyily because this book will do that to you.

[Mackenzie]

This book was really good! It was an L.A read but i definitely would have read it otherwise

[Hannah]

i didn't really like it. but at the ending i loved it!

[Kincade]

I hated this book. I would never read this book again. I was forced to read this book last year and it took about half the year to finish it.

[Claire Gilbert]

I loved this book as a kid and have read it many times since finding it. About an outsider from a different place that learns to connect and finds love and happiness and herself

[Ivy]

I read it a long time ago so i don't reameber it to well but I do remeber i loved it!

[Tim]

I didn't like reading this book for school. If I had a choice would never have picked it. DON'T READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!