02096cam a2200409 i 4500 605837890 TxAuBib 20220921120000.0 150727s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015947740 9780448479057 paperback 0448479052 paperback TxAuBib rda Holub, Joan, author. What were the Salem Witch Trials? [PBK] / by Joan Holub ; illustrated by Dede Putra. New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015] 106 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier What was Includes bibliographical references (page 106). "Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history."-Provided by publisher. 20220921. 1600 - 1699. Trials (Witchcraft) Massachusetts Salem Juvenile literature. Witchcraft Massachusetts Salem History 17th century Juvenile literature. Witch hunting Massachusetts Salem History 17th century Juvenile literature. Trials (Witchcraft.) Witch hunting. Witchcraft. Massachusetts Salem. History. Juvenile works. Putra, Dede. What was.