What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
Contributor(s): Holub, Joan (Author); Putra, Dede (Illustrator); McVeigh, Kevin (Illustrator)
"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.
Publisher:  Grosset & Dunlap
Pub Date:  08/2015
ISBN: 9780448479057
Binding:  Paperback
BISAC Categories:  Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/Colonial & Revolutionary; Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/General; Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical