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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
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Students will be fascinated by the events that transpired in seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts, when a group of young girls accused several townspeople of witchcraft. Through colorful images and riveting text, this truth is stranger than fiction story will teach young readers much about the religious and cultural state of colonial New England, as well as the dangers of groupthink. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
"The Salem witch-hunt and trials have captured the attention and imagination of young and old for centuries. Now Frances Hill guides us through the thickets of history and explains in clear and factual terms exactly what went on during that horrifying period between 1691 and 1693 when over one hundred men, women, and children were shackled in the dank prisons of Salem, charged with witchcraft. Ultimately, nineteen were hanged at Gallows Hill, one...
5) The Salem witch trials: a primary source history of the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the witch hunt and trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century.
6) The crucible
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
Author
Series
Fábula volume 245
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2008, c1997
Language
Español
Description
Presents both the play revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association and the screenplay that the author later wrote to adapt the same material to the medium of film.
Publisher
Scholarly Resources
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America is a collection of twelve articles that revisit crucial events in the history of witchcraft and spiritual feminism in this country. Beginning with the "witches" of colonial America, Spellbound extends its focus through the nineteenth century to explore women's involvement with alternative spiritualities, and culminates with examinations of the contemporary feminist neopagan and Goddess movements. A valuable...
9) Beheld
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Harperteen, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Being a powerful witch, Kendra has survived it all. Since she first beheld James over three hundred years ago, Kendra has tangled with witch hunters and wolves, helped a millers daughter spin straw into gold, cowered in London as German bombs fell, and lived through who knows how many shipwrecks. But her powers have limits, and immortality can be lonely. Kendra isnt ready to stop searching for the warlock she had met centuries ago. With the help of...
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