Frank Carlson Library

Young readers "will be carried along by the sheer excitement of the story" of 17th-century slavery and witchcraft by the million-copy selling author (The New York Times).
In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts. Rumors about witches are spreading like wildfire throughout the state, filling the heads of Salem's superstitious, God-fearing residents.

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Presents information on the lives, behaviors, and beliefs of British colonists living in New England in 1692 in order to explain how it was possible for the people to turn against their neighbors with accusations of witchcraft.

Explores the Salem witch trials and how that event has sculpted societies, the sciences, and politics.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the witch hunt and trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century.

"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...