Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781426308697)

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 nothing cured the young Puritans. He grimly announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations began.

The riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people's lives and ruined hundreds more unfolds in chilling, novelistic detail--complete with stylized black-white-and-red scratchboard illustrations of young girls having wild fits in the courtroom, witches flying overhead, and the Devil and his servants terrorizing the Puritans-- in this young adult book by award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer.

Taught in middle and high schools around the U.S., the 17th-century saga remains hauntingly resonant as people struggle even today with the urgent need to find someone to blame for their misfortunes.
Witches! has been honored with many prestigious awards, including: . Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book

2012 Notable Children's Books--ALSC

NCSS--Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012

School Library Journal Best Books of 2011

SLJ's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2011

Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2011

Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
ISBN-10: 1426308698
ISBN-13: 9781426308697
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2011
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 146048 / Witches! the Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2011 pg. 54
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2011 pg. 523 - Recommended - Better Than Most
School Library Journal 12/01/2011 pg. 142
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2011
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 36
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2012 pg. 193 - Recommended, Satisfactory