Witch-Hunt by Marc Aronson
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.
Marc Aronson is an editor and author of many award-winning books for young people, including War Is. . . . Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War, which he coedited with Patty Campbell, and Sugar Changed the World, which he cowrote with Marina Budhos. Marc Aronson lives in New Jersey. Charles R. Smith, Jr., is the author and photographer of Winning Words: Sports Stories and Photographs and the author of Hoop Queens, Hoop Kings, Chameleon, and Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor. He won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Illustrated Award for this photogrphas illustrating My People by Langston Hughes. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780689848643 |
| ISBN 10 | 0689848641 |
| Title | Witch-Hunt |
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| Year published | 2003-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Commended for Tayshas Reading 2005 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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