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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
Author
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Explores all aspects of witchcraft: magical tools, rituals, concepts, and traditions as well as witchcraft-related deities and historical events. Offers information about important figures in the field of witchcraft, from witch-trial judges and other persecutors to people at the forefront of the modern witchcraft movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 6
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's wine cellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism and Islam. Secret words, spells and incantations lie at the heart of every mythological tradition. Today, magic means many things: contemporary Wicca is practised widely as a modern pagan religion in Europe and the US; 'magic' also evokes the cathartic rituals of Chaos magic, but stretches to include...
15) A path begins
Author
Series
The thickety volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Kara Westfall was five years old, her mother was convicted of the worst of all crimes: witchcraft. Years later, Kara and her little brother, Taff, are still shunned by the people of their village, who believe that nothing is more evil than magic ... except, the mysterious forest that covers nearly the entire island. It has many names, this place. Sometimes it is called the Dark Wood, or Sordyr's Realm. But mostly it's called the Thickety. The...
16) The stone witch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mr. Blood enters a witch's tomb he triggers a curse which only his young assistants, Edgar and Mary, can break.
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"From the wicked witch of children's stories to Halloween and present-day Wiccan groups, witches and witchcraft still fascinate observers of Western culture. Witches were believed to affect climatological catastrophes, put spells on their neighbors, and cavort with the devil. In early modern Europe and the Americas, witches and witch-hunting were an integral part of everyday life, touching major events such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution,...
19) Jinx
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.
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