The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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HarperCollins 1958
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Street Date:
12/01/1958
Language:
English
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9780547416397
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Elizabeth George Speare. (1958). The Witch of Blackbird Pond. HarperCollins.

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Elizabeth George Speare. 1958. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. HarperCollins.

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Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond. HarperCollins, 1958.

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Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. HarperCollins, 1958.

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    Elizabeth George Speare won the 1959 Newbery Medal for this portrayal of a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.

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