trials (witchcraft)

A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692 -- Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.

Based on the four-hour CBS miniseries exploring the witch trials of Salem Village, Massachusetts.

In 1693, the village of Salem, Massachusetts was overcome with superstitious hysteria. At the peak of the madness someone hundred fifty people, male and female, were accused of being witches. Twenty of them were executed.

Describes, in graphic form, the Salem Witch Trials; and includes a time line and a glossary.

Told from two different perspectives, this novel, set against the backdrop of the Salem Witch Trials, follows Elizabeth Putnam, who is accused of witchcraft, and her best friend George, who must choose between the beliefs of his community and what he knows to be true.

When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.

Presents an illustrated history of the witch trials in the English colonial town called Salem, where people's mental illness was mistaken for witchcraft, and discusses the role of Reverend Samuel Parris and various arrests, punishments and wrongful deaths of people whose behavior was misunderstood, and includes a glossary.

Uses a graphic novel format to recount the true story of the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials in 1692, which resulted in the hanging of nineteen women accused of witchcraft.

Presents an introductory overview of the Salem witch trials and biographical profiles of five people involved: the slave Tituba, Reverend Samuel Parris, Reverend Cotton Mather, Judge Samuel Sewall, and one of those hanged, Rebecca Nurse.

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.