The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Summary and Analysis: Chapter 11

Summary
One midsummer day, while Kit and Mercy are teaching, Kit gets the sensation that someone is lurking outside the house. Kit finds flowers on the doorstep and spies Prudence Cruff hiding nearby. Prudence likes Kit and wishes she could come to school and learn to read and write, but she says she cannot because her mother thinks she is too stupid. Kit strikes a deal with Prudence to meet secretly in the meadows to teach her how to read. Kit brings a hornbook, which had been a gift from her grandfather, to give to Prudence, but when the younger girl says she...

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