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  The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery from History

  by Jane Yolen, Heidi Elisabet Y Stemple

  In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, witnessed one of the saddest and most inexplicable chapters in American history. When a group of girls came down with a horrible, mysterious bout of illness, the town doctor looked in his medical books but failed to find a reasonable diagnosis. Pretty soon everyone in town was saying the same thing: The girls were ill because they were under a spell, the spell of witchcraft! And... (more)
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  Time of the Witches

  by Anna Myers

  An orphan named Drucilla has finally has a place to call home with the Putnam family in Salem.  Although her adopted mother is strange—haunted by a troubled past—Dru feels drawn to her as the mother she never had. When a new reverend and his family move into town with their servant Tituba, life takes a strange turn as young girls begin to fall ill and accusations of witchcraft begin to swirl. Reluctant to turn her... (more)
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  Jane-Emily

  by Patricia Clapp

  Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then one day . . . Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden—and the face that looks back at her is not her own. ... (more)
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  Salem Witch Trials: How History Is Invented (How History Is Invented Series)

  by Lori Lee Wilson

  Discusses the witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692, the events leading up to them, and how the trials have been viewed by different historians since then.
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  SALEM ON TRIAL SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH 8 (Sabrina The Teenage Witch)

  by Bobbi J.G, Weiss, David Cody Weiss

  Sabrina and her cat, Salem, travel to Colonial-era Westbridge to research a history project, but Sabrina's powers have been time-locked so that she won't change history. Their first shock is meeting Harvard Kinklin and Libbeth Chestler--dead ringers for Harvey and Libby. Libbeth is as jealous as her alter ego; when she sees Sabrina talking to her cat, she brings charges of witchcraft against them. Suddenly Sabrina... (more)
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  The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692

  by Richard B. Trask

  Published in a limited edition in 1992, this volume has been expanded with the addition of 19 recently discovered documents on Salem witchcraft. Trask here gathers the legal documents, sermons, and other papers used against the Salem residents accused of practicing the black arts. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  WITCH HUNT: HAP SALEM V (Step Into Reading/Step 4 Book)

  by Stephen Krensky

  Illus. in full color. "Krensky ably retells the story of 1692 Salem witch trials, making clear the unfairness of the trials that led to the executions of 19 supposed witches. Color drawings add atmosphere. A good choice for a simple introduction to the ever-popular story of witchcraft in 17th century Salem."-- School Library Journal.
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  Haunted Salem & Beyond

  by Lynda Lee Macken

  Witchcraft and commerce, seafarers and slaves, even literature combine to conjure up a ghostly brew of haunted happenings in this New England harbor town and other North Shore haunts.
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  Hunting for Witches: A Visitor's Guide to the Salem Witch Trials

  by Frances Hill

  This fascinating guidebook reveals the true story of the Salem witch trials and describes more than fifty important sites you can visit today. Take a tour through time. Find the hidden paths and places where so-called witches and their accusers walked in 1692 Salem. This book reveals the truth behind the myths and helps you locate the important houses, churches, and streets of that terrifying time. Maps,... (more)
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  I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

  by Maryse Conde

  "Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who tried to rape her. She was raised from then on by Mama Yaya, a gifted woman who shared with her the secrets of healing and magic.... (more)
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  Salem: Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail (National Park Service Handbook)

  How is a sense of place created, imagined, and reinterpreted over time? That is the intriguing question addressed in this comprehensive look at the 400-year history of Salem, Massachusetts, and the experiences of fourteen generations of people who lived in a place mythologized in the public imagination by the horrific witch trials and executions of 1692 and 1693. But from its settlement in 1626 to the present,... (more)
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  Beyond The Burning Time (Point Signature)

  by Kathryn Lasky

  When young Betty Parris contracts a mysterious ailment that spreads to other girls in her Puritan village of Salem, Betty and her family must confront the deadly superstitions that will change their lives. Reprint. AB. K. VY. C.
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  Elizabeth

  by Willo Davis Roberts

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  The Witchcraft of Salem Village (Landmark Books)

  by Shirley Jackson

  Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful... (more)
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  Salem: Cornerstones of a Historic City

  by Joseph Flibbert, K. Goss, Bryant Tolles, Richard Trask

  Five authors and seventy color photographs tell the history of Salem, Massachusetts, focusing on the "cornerstones" of this great colonial portthe topics that continue to fascinate historians, visitors, and residents. The five articles are "The Maritime History of Salem," "The Witchcraft Trials of 1692," "Architecture of Historic Salem," "Nathaniel Hawthorne: Salem Personified," and "Salem Then and Now."
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  An Acquaintance with Darkness (Great Episodes)

  by Ann Rinaldi

  Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend's family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emily is left unsure of whom she can trust. Includes a reader's guide.
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  Witches & Historians: Interpretations of Salem

  Witches and Historians is an anthology of writings about the outbreak of witchcraft that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The book shows how interpretations have evolved over the past three centuries, and how historians have drawn on the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, medicine, women's studies, psychology, and other disciplines to explain the events at Salem.
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  Such Men Are Dangerous: The Fanatics of 1692 and 2004

  by Frances Hill

  The author, well known for her books about the Salem witch trials, finds a close parallel between the Puritan ideologues of 1692 and the neoconservative ideologues who hold power in America today. In side-by-side accounts, Hill re-tells the story of the witch trials and American history subsequent to September 11, 2001, showing chilling similarities in the men who hold leadership positions and their pursuit of... (more)
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  Witches' Brew

  Throughout history, witches have always enthralled us. Be they good witches or bad witches, ancient sorcerers or modern-day Wiccans, their aura of magic, nature, and power is irresistible. Here, some of the greatest authors of all time are gathered together to stir up a little trouble. These works of prose and poetry capture the witch in all her guises: wicked, empowering, romantic, and pagan. Featuring: ... (more)
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  The Salem Witch Trials Reader

  by Frances Hill

  A Da Capo Original: From the acclaimed author of A Delusion of Satan, a unique gathering of firsthand accounts about the background, course, and repercussions of the Salem witch trials. Salem, Massachusetts, in the year 1692: against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent... (more)