Together, the two create an imaginary kingdom named Terabithia in the woods, where they rule as king and queen, and where the only limit is their imaginations. Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia is the story of the friendship between two fifth-graders, a boy and a girl, Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke. She befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond and, as a result, is accused of witchcraft. There, in a stern Puritan community, Kit feels like a caged bird.
Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond is set in 1687 and tells the story of a young girl, Kit, who is forced to leave the Caribbean for a colony in Connecticut. The pair allege that the books, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare and Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, promote witchcraft and violence and have filed a petition asking school officials to remove them, as reported by the Hartford Courant.
In Cromwell, Connecticut, two residents want a pair of Newbery Medal-winning novels removed from the Cromwell middle school's curriculum.
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