What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials?

Written by Joan Holub and Who HQ & illustrated by Dede Putra
Part of the What Was . . . ? Book Series
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8 - 11
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112
Page count
8,420
Word count
760L
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Aug 11, 2015
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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.

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historywitchesColonial and Revolutionary periods17th centuryAmerican historywitchcraftthe Salem witch trials

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    ISBN
    9780448479057
    Publication Date
    August 11, 2015
    Publisher
    Penguin Workshop
    Original Publication Date
    August 11, 2015
    Page Count
    112
    Word Count
    8420
    Audience
    Juvenile Reader
    Reading Age
    8 - 11 years
    Lexile® Level
    760L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~R
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.3
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    1
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    177329
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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