Elizabeth George Speare Books In Order

Novels

  1. Calico Captive (1957)
  2. The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958)
  3. The Bronze Bow (1961)
  4. The Sign Of The Beaver (1983)

Omnibus

  1. A Newbery Collection boxed set (2011)

Collections

  1. Beneath Another Sky (1989)

Plays

Non fiction

  1. Life In Colonial America (1963)

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Elizabeth George Speare Books Overview

Calico Captive

In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War. It is a harrowing march north. Miriam can only force herself to the next stopping place, the next small portion of food, the next icy stream to be crossed. At the end of the trail waits a life of hard work and, perhaps, even a life of slavery. Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney, her sweetheart on his way to Harvard, is the crying of her sister’s baby, Captive, born on the trail. Miriam and her companions finally reach Montreal, a city of shifting loyalties filled with the intrigue of war, and here, by a sudden twist of fortune, Miriam meets the prominent Du Quesne family, who introduce her to a life she has never imagined. Based on an actual narrative diary published in 1807, Calico Captive skillfully reenacts an absorbing facet of history.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Witch trials in seventeeth century Connecticut a Newbery Medal winning classic. Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. 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. Kit’s unconventional background and high spirited ways immediately clash with the Puritanical lifestyle of her uncle’s household, and despite her best efforts to adjust, it seems Kit will never win the favour of those around her. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place, and just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit’s friendship with old Hannah Tupper, who is believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined, and ultimately Kit is forced to choose between her heart and her duty. Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Medal winning novel portrays the life of a girl uprooted from her birthplace and yet unbound by the suppression of her new home, a hero*ine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.

The Sign Of The Beaver

A brand new paperback edition of the Newbery Honor book, with an introduction by Joseph Bruchac. Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen year old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt knows he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. Only after meeting the proud, resourceful Indian boy Attean does Matt begin to understand the way of the Beaver clan and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the changing frontier.

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