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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
The Sarlet letter, set in Boston is about a young woman who must wear a scarlet A on her clothing as a sign of her sin of adultery. She was led into sin by her pastor who confesses just before he dies and ; The house of seven gables which is about the Pyncheon family who lived for years in a house under a man's curse until his death restores the peace of their house.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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The Pyncheons, having lived for generations under the curse of a supposed witch who once occupied the land on which the family mansion was built, gain a new lease on life with the arrival of young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country.
6) The Puritans
Author
Series
American family portrait volume 1
Language
English
Description
The stirring epic of faith, love, and sacrifice -- a monumental saga of the courageous men and women who called themselves the Puritans. Young Drew Morgan has an enviable position. Handpicked by Bishop Laud, next to the king the most powerful man in England, it is his assignment to infiltrate Puritan villages, turn over "traitors" to the church and crown, and discover the secret identity of the notorious pamphleteer Justin. But when Drew falls in...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A selection of twenty short stories written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne between 1832 and 1850, reflecting his themes of guilt and secrecy, intellectual and moral pride, the supernatural, and the decadence of New England Puritanism.
8) Novels
Author
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
520 Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor. For the next...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An immersive history of the far-reaching events in England that led to the sailing of the Mayflower. 2020 brings readers the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower--the ship that took the pilgrim Fathers to the New World. it is a foundational event in American history, but it began as an English story that pioneered the idea of religious freedom. The illegal underground movement of Protestant separatists from Elizabeth I's Church of England...
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Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, the enthralling story of a young Puritan woman who marries the wrong man and soon finds herself caught up in the violence and hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials"--
Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the...
Author
Series
Grosset's universal library volume UL-9
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1947
Language
English
Author
Series
American diaries volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.
19) Witch child
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
20) Love's pursuit
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In a rigid community where appearance is everything, Susannah Phillips stands out both for her character and beauty - things that have attracted two very different men. Yet as the depth, passion, and sacrifice of real love is revealed to her, Susannah begins to question the rules and regulations of her childhood faith. In a community where grace is unknown ... What price will she pay for embracing love?
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