{"product_id":"witches-the-absolutely-true-tale-of-disaster-in-salem-9781426308697b","title":"Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eTackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff's much-lauded book \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Witches: Salem, 1692\u003c\/span\u003e, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features unique scratchboard illustrations, chilling primary source material, and powerful narrative to tell the true tale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eTaught 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. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWitches!\u003c\/span\u003e has been honored with many prestigious awards, including:. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book","brand":"National Geographic","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42819008823376,"sku":"9781426308697B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781426308697-l.jpg?v=1785874250","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/witches-the-absolutely-true-tale-of-disaster-in-salem-9781426308697b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}