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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honour.
For the...
Author
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Tackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff's much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features unique scratchboard illustrations, chilling primary source material, and powerful narrative to tell the true tale.
In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The doctor tried every remedy, but...
In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The doctor tried every remedy, but...
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English
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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Hannah Thomas left the South and all that was familiar to marry her beloved John. But the fact that she's never been quite accepted by his mother and sister and that she doesn't quite fit the strict Massachusetts Puritan community only becomes more difficult when John is killed in one of the first battles in the war for freedom. Hannah is allowed to continue to serve as lightkeeper for the twin tower lighthouses on the lonely coastline, but it is...
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English
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Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means -- and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation? The people she finds are highly literate, deeply...
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English
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"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
Author
Series
American diaries volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.
14) The witch
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1630 New England, a family begins to turn on each other when their newborn son mysteriously disappears.
15) The sacrifice
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
16) The puritans
Author
Series
American family portrait volume 1
Publisher
Victor Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. The daughter of an union with an outsider that cast her once-proud family into disgrace, Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead...
18) The rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Josiah and Hope, two young Puritans living in Salem Village in 1689, befriend a Quaker woman and a Wampanoag Indian who are not accepted members of the community.
20) Anne Hutchinson
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the Puritan woman who was banished from her colony for being outspoken against the religious leaders there.
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