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Wicked Girls
A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
By Hemphill, Stephanie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06185-328-9 978-0-06185-329-6
- Publisher
- Balzer + Bray HarperCollins
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2010
Gr 9 Up—Wicked Girls weaves a fresh interpretation of the events put forth in Arthur Miller's The Crucible and revisited more recently by Katherine Howe in The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Voice, 2009). Mercy Lewis, Ann Putnam, and Mary Walcott (in this story, called "Margaret") point their fingers, lift their eyes, and cry "witch" once again. Elderly Goody Nurse appears, Mary Warren (here called "Ruth") recants her accusations, John Proctor is accused and hanged, and Giles Corey is pressed to death. The verse...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2010
"Sure as meat makes a pie, / the villagers be certain / that Satan is among them. / The brisk spoons of girls / ladle fear / into everyone's bowls." In this forceful verse novel, Hemphill (Your Own, Sylvia, rev. 3/07) gives voice to those who writhed, twitched, and shrieked their way to power during the Salem witch trials. Her plausible interpretation of events is a Puritan Mean Girls, with peer pressure and group dynamics driving the young accusers to mai...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
In this forceful verse novel, Hemphill gives voice to those who writhed, twitched, and shrieked their way to power during the Salem ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
