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Witchcraft Trials
Clapp, Patricia - Witches’ Children:
A Story of Salem (160 pages) During the winter of 1692,
when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject
to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen
the
devil and are the victims of witches.
Hildick, E.W. - Hester
Bidgood, Investigatrix of Evill Deedes (141 pages) 13-year-old Hester Bidgood
and her 14-year-old friend Rob MacGregor investigate the
stoning
and branding of a kitten in a New England town caught in the grip of witchcraft
rumors during the year 1692.
Speare, Elizabeth George
- The Witch of Blackbird
Pond (249 pages) 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.
Petry, Ann - Tituba
of Salem Village (254 pages) It is 1692, and there is strange talk
in Salem. Talk of witches. Several girls have been taken
with
fits, and
there is only one explanation: someone in the village has been doing
the devil’s
work. All eyes are on Tituba, the minister’s slave, the one person
who can tell fortunes with cards, and who can spin a thread so fine it
must be magic.
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