Mr. Wilson's Salem and Witchcraft Trials Books
February 25, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
133.4 Ald HS
Alderman, Clifford Lindsey. The devil's shadow; : the story of witchcraft in Massachusetts. An account of the Salem witch trials and an examination of the conditions surrounding the prosecution of scores of citizens unjustly accused of witchcraft.
133.4 Jac
Jackson, Shirley. The witchcraft of Salem Village. Describes the social and religious conditions surrounding the Salem witch hunts, the extensive trials and executions, and the aftermath of the hysteria.
133.4 Mel HS
Meltzer, Milton. Witches and witch-hunts : a history of persecution. A history of witch-hunts around the world, covering four hundred years, from fifteenth-century France to Joseph McCarthy, and including the activities in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, as well as the atrocities of Adolf Hitler.
133.4 Sta
Starkey, Marion L. The tall man from Boston. An account of the Salem witch trials emphasizing the role of John Alden, one of the unjustly accused "witches".
133.4 Sta HS
Starkey, Marion Lena. The visionary girls: witchcraft in Salem Village. An account of the witchcraft trials held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.
133.4 Wil HS
Wilson, Lori Lee. The Salem witch trials. Minneapolis. Discusses the witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692, the events leading up to them, and how the trials have been viewed by different historians since then.
272 Dic HS
Dickinson, Alice. The Salem witchcraft delusion, 1692. Discusses the social and religious climate that led to the Salem witch hunts and describes the trials and their aftermath.
345.744 Kal HS
Kallen, Stuart A. The Salem witch trials. Discusses the Salem witch trials, including their Puritan background, the accusations made, and the outcome of the social hysteria that produced the situation.
812 Mil HS
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. The crucible : a play in four acts. Against the backdrop of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, a woman extracts revenge against her married paramour by charging that he and his wife are sorcerers.
Fic Cla HS
Clapp, Patricia. Witches' children : a story of Salem. During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are the victims of witches.
Fic For HS
Forbes, Esther. A mirror for witches : in which is reflected the life, machinations, and death of famous Doll Bilby, who, with a more than feminine perversity, preferred a demon to a mortal lover, here is also told how and why a righteous and most awfull judgement befell her, destroying both corporeal body and immortal soul.
Fic Fra
Fraustino, Lisa Rowe. I walk in dread : the diary of Deliverance Trembley, witness to the Salem witch trials. Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
Fic Fri HS
Fritz, Jean. Early thunder. Traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists.
Fic Las HS
Lasky, Kathryn.Beyond the burning time. When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.
Fic Pet HS
Petry, Ann Lane. Tituba of Salem Village. Tells how Tituba, a slave, was sold in Barbados to a preacher bound for Boston and became one of three women convicted at the beginning of the Salem witch trials.
Fic Ree HS
Rees, Celia. Witch child. In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
Fic Ree HS
Rees, Celia. Sorceress. Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended form a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who filed charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
Fic Ree HS
Rees, Celia. Witch Child. In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. A break with charity : a story about the Salem witch trials. While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
