Books : Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
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by: Marc Aronson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.43097445
EAN: 9781416903154
ISBN: 1416903151
Label: Simon Pulse
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: August 09, 2005
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 51331
Studio: Simon Pulse
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Product Description:
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Some of them expose wounds to the horrified onlookers, holding out the pins that have stabbed them -- pins that appeared as if by magic. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has begun: The witch trials will eventually claim twenty-five lives, shatter the community, and forever shape the American social conscience.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Great book that is both informing and entertaining!
I came across this book when I was given the assignment of writing a paper on the Salem Witch Trials. I really didn't know too much about it and I figured like most books that I used for other research papers, despite how interesting the topic, it'd be boring. Well this book had the unique quality of being both a textbook as well as being interesting enough to almost be a story.
The way this book was written was extremely well done. It gives you the facts and information you need while ... Read More
Rating:  - A little hard to stay focused...
The subject matter was what had me buying this book, but it was hard to stay intrigued with the text-book language used. The pictures were great and it had a lot of useful information, but this is a book I would only use for research. Not for the light reader!
Rating:  - An uninteresting book
The book was very dull it had better use as a textbook than a pleasure-reading book. Trying to connect to the characters would be like trying to teach an ameba to roll over, no character was given enough screen-time, or page-time to be correct, to get to know them. The book started telling how Elizabeth's story, which influenced modern Cinderella stories, then you suddenly are reading about how many people believe in witches today, after that about how Marther helped a family in need, ect... After awhile ... Read More
Rating: - An honest look at the subject
If you want to only read one book on the Salem Witch Trials this is the book for you. the book is addressed to teens so its a quick and easy read.
this book is a very factual look at a very troubbling and mysteriuos time. there are alot of unawnsered questions that many historians guess at or write about their own personal judgements. the cool thing about this book is that it presents the facts and the theories in a questioning way saying this could have happened this way, etc. it leaves room ... Read More
Rating:  - Repetitive and disappointing
The author's note to the reader gave me high expectations. It talked about all the fallacies I might have read and how this book was going to tell me things I had never learned and solve the oft-referred to "mysteries of Salem." I knew quite a bit about the Salem witch trials, so I was curious as to what Aronson could tell me. I was slightly irked at his misuse of the word "occult," however; he made it sound like it is evil, satanic practices, which it most certainly is not. In fact, an occult practitioner ... Read More
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