Author: Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 054538804X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lisa Rowe Fraustino's dramatic tale of the Salem witch trials is back in print with a beautiful new cover design!Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who possesses the skills to read and write, the whispered accusations begin. Suddenly she has more to worry about than just the wrath of her uncle, her ill sister, and the fate of the other women in town. Within the pages of her diary, Deliverance captures the panic, terror, suspicion, and hysteria that swept through Salem Village during one of the most infamous eras in American history.
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 (Dear America)
Author: Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 054538804X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lisa Rowe Fraustino's dramatic tale of the Salem witch trials is back in print with a beautiful new cover design!Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who possesses the skills to read and write, the whispered accusations begin. Suddenly she has more to worry about than just the wrath of her uncle, her ill sister, and the fate of the other women in town. Within the pages of her diary, Deliverance captures the panic, terror, suspicion, and hysteria that swept through Salem Village during one of the most infamous eras in American history.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 054538804X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lisa Rowe Fraustino's dramatic tale of the Salem witch trials is back in print with a beautiful new cover design!Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who possesses the skills to read and write, the whispered accusations begin. Suddenly she has more to worry about than just the wrath of her uncle, her ill sister, and the fate of the other women in town. Within the pages of her diary, Deliverance captures the panic, terror, suspicion, and hysteria that swept through Salem Village during one of the most infamous eras in American history.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
The Specter of Salem
Author: Gretchen A. Adams
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459605829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The 1950s drama 'The Crucible' underscored the link between contemporary political investigations and the 1692 Salem witch trials. This book reveals that this 20th-century cultural movement followed a long history of appeals to American memories of the witch trials.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459605829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The 1950s drama 'The Crucible' underscored the link between contemporary political investigations and the 1692 Salem witch trials. This book reveals that this 20th-century cultural movement followed a long history of appeals to American memories of the witch trials.
The Salem Witchcraft Trials
Author: Karen Zeinert
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A vivid account of the hysteria that enveloped Salem and of the 19 people who lost their lives as a result.
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A vivid account of the hysteria that enveloped Salem and of the 19 people who lost their lives as a result.