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Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials Paperback - 2005

by Marc Aronson; Stephanie Anderson (Illustrator)

Acclaimed historian Aronson sifts through the facts, myths, half-truths, and theories about the witch trials in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, to present a vivid narrative of one of the most compelling mysteries in American history. Illustrations.


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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. Some of them expose wounds to the horrified onlookers, holding out the pins that have stabbed them -- pins that appeared as if by magic. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has begun: The witch trials will eventually claim twenty-five lives, shatter the community, and forever shape the American social conscience.

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  • Title Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
  • Author Marc Aronson; Stephanie Anderson (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, NY USA
  • Date 2005-08-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781416903154 / 1416903151
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.62 x 0.8 in (20.98 x 14.27 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 14 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 9 - 12
  • Reading level 1180
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
  • Library of Congress subjects Trials (Witchcraft) - Massachusetts - Salem, Salem (Mass.) - History - Colonial period,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006271772
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133.430

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Citations

  • Ingram Children's Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 72
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/12/2005, Page 72

About the author

Marc Aronson is the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, which earned four starred reviews. He is also the author of Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA's first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from New York University. Marc is a member of the full-time faculty in the graduate program of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com. Stephanie Anderson lives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her first picture book was Weaving the Rainbow, by George Ella Lyon, in which her art was praised by Kirkus Reviews as "exquisite."
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