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1) The crucible
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"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
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an eighty-year-old man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians...
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter, now a fifth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, struggles with a threatening teacher, problematic house elf, the dread of upcoming final exams, and haunting dreams that hint toward his mysterious past.
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Everything you need to know to create your very own sacred space-perfect for practicing home-based witchcraft including spells, rituals, herbalism, and more!-from the author of The Green Witch. Your home is an important part of who you are-it makes sense to tie your practice of witchcraft closely to the place where you build your life. In The House Witch, you'll discover everything you need to live, work, and practice in your own magical space. Follow...
Author
Series
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
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When most people hear the world "witches", they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshiping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. - Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five year trip into the occult, chatting modern...
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter sets out on a final quest to stop his archenemy, the evil Lord Voldemort, with his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, before the wizarding world can be destroyed by Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follow the terrifying events of the 1692 Salem witch trials from the perspective of Tituba, an enslaved woman who was accused of bewitching two girls, Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams, during this harrowing, historic period. A story of speculation, mass hysteria, and survival, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into this haunting moment in American history - brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains five illustrated moral tales for children from the world of Harry Potter, reportedly discovered and translated by young witch Hermione Granger, with an introduction and commentary from Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 7
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
La fecha crucial se acerca. Cuando cumpla los diecisiete anos, Harry perdera el encantamiento protector que lo mantiene a salvo. El anunciado enfrentamiento a muerte con lord Voldemort es...
Author
Series
Gifted clans volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.--
19) Hocus pocus
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the year 1693, sisters Winifred, Mary and Sarah were executed for their unforgivable witchcraft. They captured and sucked the life out of children. Just before their execution, Winifred made a curse - a curse that when a virgin lights the black flame candle on Halloween night, they shall return. 300 years later, Max decides to light the candle in order to scare his irritating sister Dani and his love interest Alison. Now, the three witches are...
Series
Harry Potter volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Finds young wizard Harry and his friends Ron and Hermoine facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to uncover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.
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