This Sibert Award winning book takes a look at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. It details the events chronologically and we learn about all the characters: the accused, the accusers and the judges, as well as the puritan mindset that made all the outrageous accusations believable. As we are informed in the preface: 'Anyone could be a witch ' your own mother or father, your best friend, your tiny baby brother, or even your dog. And you might never know who was in league with the Devil until it was too late.'
With stylized black-white-and-red scratchboard illustrations and powerful quotations direct from the trial transcripts, this is an historical non-fiction book that is as riveting as a novel.
Awards won: Robert F Sibert Informational Medal 2012
Date read: 2/21/2013
ISBN-10: 1426308701
ISBN-13: 9781426308703
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