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Language
English
Description
While readying her grandmother's abandoned home for sale, Connie Goodwin discovers an ancient key in a seventeenth-century Bible with a scrap of parchment bearing the name Deliverance Dane. In her quest to discover who this woman was and seeking a rare artifact--a physick book--Connie begins to feel haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials and fears that she may be more tied to Salem's past than she could have imagined.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
For 15-year-old Sarah Owen, having a scientist father is a blessing and a curse. He doesn't bat an eye at her psychic abilities, since he researches them; and she knows more about the invisible worlds of microbes, electricity, and gravity than most girls in the 17th Century. But when Sarah travels to the Americas with her father to do more research, she's shipwrecked and lands for a time on the Gullah Islands. Later, when the plantation owners find...
5) Gallows Hill
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Salem, Massachusetts - 1692. Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England. As a Quaker, he's outnumbered and distrusted by Salem's Puritans. And as an orphan without any useful skills, he has nowhere to live and no way to earn his keep. In a stroke of luck--perhaps good, perhaps not--he's taken in by the aged widow Prudence Blevins, who's rumored to be a witch. Patience has tried all her life to be a good Puritan--obedient...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Mary, her mother, and her brother Caleb live in Salem, Massachusetts, during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. When their mother is accused of practicing witchcraft, Mary and Caleb must decide whether their mother is innocent, and if she is, how they can help her escape before it is too late.
9) Spellbinding
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Abby traces her deceased mother's family to the Salem Witch Trials, the nightmares she has been having begin to make sense, but soon she is caught up in a love triangle and an age-old quest for revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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.
12) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Practical Magic volume 0.1
Language
English
Formats
Description
We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it all began ... with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Under the care of gentle Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the 'Unnamed Arts'. Maria has a gift for them - a gift that may well prove her undoing. When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she invokes the curse that will...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1693, the village of Salem, Massachusetts was overcome with superstitious hysteria. At the peak of the madness some hundred fifty people, male and female, were accused of being witches. Twenty of them were executed.