124E: Pioneer Teen Girl Witch

I read a book in the 90s about a girl in the pioneer days who is becoming a witch or learning magic. She lives in a forest with her family and ends up having to gather herbs and set traps for animals for food. It seemed to be setting up a series. Also there was possibly a romantic element.

5 thoughts on “124E: Pioneer Teen Girl Witch

  1. Lisa Houlihan

    One possibility is Celia Rees’s Witch Child, set in colonial Massachusetts. I don’t recall it very well and don’t remember foraging and trapping but she is learning to be a witch. The premise is that possibly some of those executed for witchcraft in England and then in Salem might really have been witches.

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  2. Julie

    This sounds a little bit like a book I read in the late 90’s titled “Becoming Frances”–I think the author is named Rosemary Wood.

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  3. rose

    perhaps the *night calls* series by katharine eliska kimbriel? a pioneer girl named alfreda studies witchcraft, trapping, survival, quilting, etc.

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