Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials [Paperback]

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 the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, which earned four starred reviews. He is also the author of Rising WaterandSir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA’s first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from NYU. Marc is a member of the full-time faculty in the graduate program of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com.

Stephanie Andersonlives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her first picture book wasWeaving the Rainbow,by George Ella Lyon, in which her art was praised byKirkus Reviewsas exquisite. Readers will be swept up in this complex mystery.
--Publishers Weekly,starred review Excellent history writing.
--Kirkus Reviews,starred review A legitimate piece of original scholarship that is at the same time an interesting narrative.
--School Library Journal,starred review A grippinglãå