witchcraft

Middle-schoolers Marcus, Theo, and Lu return to the Library to hlep figure out, and fix, what is going wrong at a school in Massachusetts.

"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinetah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinetah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at shamans, sorcerers, wizards, witch doctors and others who use magic and who through study and experimentation try to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

"[Describes] the events that transpired in seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts, when a group of young girls accused several townspeople of witchcraft, [later leading to the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Teaches] young readers ... about the religious and cultural state of colonial New England, as well as the dangers of group think"--Provided by publisher.

Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.

Explores the history of the Salem witch trials from the point of view of six of the women involved, including Rebecca Nurse, Bridget Bishop, Mary English, Ann Putnam, Sr., Tituba, and Mary Warren.

Text and photographs look at the seventeenth-century Salem Witch trials.

Examines historical events through interviews with real-life witches--including actual descendants of the Salem Witch Trials--who insist that their practice is a force for both good and evil. In the end, they offer a live ritual ceremony as haunting evidence of their eternal legitimacy.

While investigating the supposed suicides of her best friend, Riley, and mean girls June and Dayton, sixteen-year-old Wiccan Mila Flores accidentally brings them back to life.

Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.