West Routt Library District

Accusations of witchcraft began when two young girls started twitching and choking. The Salem witch trials resulted in over twenty executions and ruined hundreds of lives.

Students will be fascinated by the events that transpired in seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts, when a group of young girls accused several townspeople of witchcraft. Through colorful images and riveting text, this truth is stranger than fiction story will teach young readers much about the religious and cultural state of colonial New England, as well as the dangers of groupthink. --Publisher

Discusses the Salem witch trials, including their Puritan background, the accusations made, and the outcome of the social hysteria that produced the situation.

Follow the actions of a young detective as you read this true story, study the clues, and try to understand the hysteria surrounding a group of girls who reportedly fell under the spell of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.

Describes the history surrounding Salem's famous witch hunt and witch trials that occurred during the late seventeenth century.

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.