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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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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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Language
English
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Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key secreted within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it:...
6) The crucible
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tale about the Puritan witch trials in the late 1600's Salem (Massachusetts), and how this historical play's lessons apply to contemporary society.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events involved in the Salem witch trials. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of an accused witch, the family member of an accused witch, and an accuser"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.
11) Early thunder
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1967]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds, the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gulliver Books/Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
20) Gallows Hill
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.