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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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.
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.
6) 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.
7) The secret
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josiah and his sister draw closer together as they help to solve the problems within their Puritan community in Salem in 1691.
8) The accused
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Josiah and Hope, two young Puritans living in Salem Village in 1691, find themselves caught in a bitter feud between the Putnam and Nurse families.
9) The guardian
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In colonial Massachusetts in 1690, Josiah, Hope, and their cousin Rebecca overcome their differences and restore their friendship to form a "merry band."
11) The stowaway
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer in Salem Town as the guest of a wealthy ship owner, a ten-year-old Puritan boy asks God for help in dealing with a blackmailing bully.
14) The samaritan
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Book Pub
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As tensions heighten in Salem Village in 1691, young Josiah Hutchinson learns that he must rely on the assistance of family and friends as tries to help a beggar woman and her child.
15) Cotton Mather
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book describes the life and accomplishments of John Winthrop, who served twelve terms as governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and who wrote in his journal about the events that came to be called the Great Migration.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book describes the life and accomplishments of Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island and who was the first American leader to support what today's citizens know as the separation of church and state.
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