What Were the Salem Witch Trials?

About this book

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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780448479057

Publisher

Penguin Workshop

Published

August 11, 2015

Pages

112

Weight

4.8 oz

Subject

Juvenile Nonfiction