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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In June 1692, a jury in Salem, Massachusetts, found Bridget Bishop guilty of performing witchcraft. The only evidence against her was villagers' testimony. As punishment she was publicly hanged. Meanwhile, local girls had been behaving oddly for months. They cried out of being pinched or choked by a witch's spirit. The girls accused neighbors, outcasts, and respected community members of tormenting them. As fear spread through Salem, jails filled...
4) The crucible
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Presents information for young people on what really happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, when a group of girls and young women accused certain people in the village of witchcraft, leading to the executions of innocent men and women.
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Language
English
Description
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin, having agreed to handle the sale of her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, Massachusetts, comes across an ancient key while going through the house which holds a piece of parchment with the name Deliverance Dane written on it, and in her efforts to discover more about the mysterious Deliverance, Connie soon finds herself having visions of the Salem witch trials and wondering about the extent of her family's...
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Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A look at all sides of the Salem witch trials---a who's who to Salem witchcraft that profiles these historical personalities in an attempt to answer the most pressing questions: Why was this person targeted? Why did this person accuse?
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