The Salem Witch Trials

By Robin Johnson

Book Overview

In 1692, two young girls in Salem, Massachusetts, were diagnosed by the local doctor as being bewitched. Hysteria over witchcraft reached a fever pitch leading the Puritan townsfolk to accuse friends and neighbors of being under Satan's influence. This book tells the unbelievable, yet true, story of how innocent people were jailed on the evidence of dreams and visions, and how the legal system allowed nineteen people to be hanged before the governor of the state brought the people of Salem to their senses.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778713954
• ISBN13: 9780778713951
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9