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Authors: Ann Rinaldi
Tags: #Fiction - Historical, #Paranormal, #Religion, #United States, #Women's Studies, #17th Century, #18th Century, #Social Sciences
A Break With Charity: A Story About the Salem Witch Trials
A Story About the Salem Witch Trials
5. Beyond the Cauldron's Bubbling Contents
6. The Girl Who Lived in the Woods
8. Apple Tarts and Conversation
17. When I Hear the Owls Call at Night
18. How Many More, Susanna English?
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Copyright © 1992 by Ann Rinaldi
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rinaldi, Ann.
A break with charity: a story about the Salem witch
trials/Ann Rinaldi.—1st ed.
p. cm.
"Gulliver books."
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary: 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.
ISBN 0-15-200353-3
ISBN 0-15-200101-8 (pbk.)
1. Trials (Witchcraft)—Massachusetts—Salem—Juvenile fiction.
[1. Witchcraft—Fiction. 2. Trials (Witchcraft)—Fiction. 3. Salem
(Mass.)—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775—Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.R459Br 1992
[Fic]—dc20 92-8858
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Printed in the United States of America
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AcknowledgmentsFor my husband, Ron,
who was with me through it all
I am indebted to the scholars who researched and wrote the many books I used for reference; to the people at the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts; to the people at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site; to my editor, Karen Grove of Harcourt Brace & Company, for giving me a contract for this book without a word on paper during a time of my life when such faith in me mattered so much; and to my son, Ron, for the use of his library on American and military history, as well as for leading me to my interest in American history in the first place. Gratitude also goes to my agent, Joanna Cole, for her encouragement; to my family for their forbearance; and most especially to my husband, Ron, who accompanied me on research trips and listened to my problems.
Ann Rinaldi
January 7, 1992
Prologue—1706
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