{"product_id":"witches-the-absolutely-true-tale-of-disaster-in-salem","title":"Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem","description":"Tackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff's much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features unique scratchboard illustrations, chilling primary source material, and powerful narrative to tell the true tale.\n\nIn the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The doctor tried every remedy, but nothing cured the young Puritans. He grimly announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations began.\n\nThe riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people’s lives and ruined hundreds more unfolds in chilling, novelistic detail—complete with stylized black-white-and-red scratchboard illustrations of young girls having wild fits in the courtroom, witches flying overhead, and the Devil and his servants terrorizing the Puritans— in this young adult book by award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer.\n\nTaught in middle and high schools around the U.S., the 17th-century saga remains hauntingly resonant as people struggle even today with the urgent need to find someone to blame for their misfortunes.\nWitches! has been honored with many prestigious awards, including:. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book\n\n2012 Notable Children's Books—ALSC\n\nNCSS—Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012\n\nSchool Library Journal Best Books of 2011\n\nSLJ’s 100 Magnificent Children’s Books of 2011\n\nChicago Public Library Best of the Best 2011\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1426308698\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1426308698.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Schanzer, Rosalyn\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41402242891834,"sku":"DBV.1426308698.G","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1426308698-0.jpg?v=1778270937","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/witches-the-absolutely-true-tale-of-disaster-in-salem","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}