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How to hang a witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...
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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary...
5) Gallows Hill
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Told in alternating voices, in 1692 Salem, Puritan Patience and Quaker Thomas are engrossed in a community panic over witchcraft, and as the list of accusers and accused grows, they question their faiths and fight to protect their families.
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Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
God and Satan are at war in fount Royal and even the innocent are not safe. In the end, Matthew follows his head and his heart to unmask the true face of evil, and Rachel finds that her only escape leads halfway to oblivion and back.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village, where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But when four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, Deliverance finds herself caught up in the ensuing drama of the trials. And life in Salem is never the same.
11) City of crows
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Pub. Date
c2018.
Description
City of Crows is a the story of Charlotte Picot, a young woman forced to venture to the fearsome city of Paris in search of her kidnapped son, Nicolas. Early on in her journey, fate places the quick-witted charlatan Adam Lesage in her path. Lesage is newly released from the prison galleys, but Charlotte, believing him to be a spirit she has summoned from the underworld, enlists his help in finding her child. Charlotte and Lesage--comically ill-matched...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 33
Description
Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. A self-educated "natural philosopher," Jennet is inspired in her quest by a single sentence in a cryptic letter from Isaac Newton: "It so happens that in the Investigations...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.
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House of Winslow volume 2
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A book about the Salem witch trials.
The Captive Bride follows the Winslow family as they assist in the building of a great nation. With courage and spirit, Rachel Winslow stands up to the enemies of freedom. Can she face unjust imprisonment--even death--without retreat? Book 2 from the bestselling House of Winslow series.
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
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Canterbury Tales mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Having witnessed a murder with possible supernatural ties when he was an apprentice, the Carpenter works to solve an intricate mystery involving a purported witch coven leader who would avenge the deaths of her sisters.