What Were the Salem Witch Trials? / by Joan Holub ; illustrated by Dede Putra.

By:

Holub, Joan [author.]

Contributor(s):

Putra, Dede (Illustrator)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015]Description: 106 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780448479057
0448479052

Subject(s):

Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Juvenile literature
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature
Witch hunting -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature

DDC classification:

345.744/50288 23

Contents:

What were the Salem Witch Trials? -- Betty and Abigail -- Witches -- Questions -- Tituba -- Witch hunt -- Trials -- Punishment -- Fortune-telling -- Why? -- Afterword -- Timelines -- Bibliography.

Summary: "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 languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history."-Provided by publisher.

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What were the Salem Witch Trials? -- Betty and Abigail -- Witches -- Questions -- Tituba -- Witch hunt -- Trials -- Punishment -- Fortune-telling -- Why? -- Afterword -- Timelines -- Bibliography.

"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 languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history."-Provided by publisher.