from LindsayHanson

4Q,3P "If you have previously read novels for younger readers or popular adult account about those fascinating and frightening times [Salem Witch Trials], or if you have visited Salem itself, a good part of what you know is wrong. Over the centuries the actual events that took place that year wer...

from DayehSensei

While the topic presented in Marc Aronson's book "Witch Hunt" is certainly fascinating and the information presented is thoroughly, artfully, and exhaustingly researched, the actual narrative of this history of the Salem witch trials is confusing and scattered. As an adult, I had trouble followin...

from kimneher

4Q, 3P. Witch-Hunt is an engaging and well-written retelling of what happened during the Salem witch trials, and the mysteries that still remain. Why did the accusers (mostly teenagers) do what they did? What led them to knowingly send 19 of their neighbors to be hanged? Aronson approaches these ...

from ginawilliams

In this piece of non-fiction, Marc Aronson revisits the historical events of the Salem Witch Trials with the purpose of correcting false information by addressing assumptions, opinions, and fictional accounts about the period. Using a narrative, conversational voice, Aronson describes his researc...

from jamiesque

In Witch-Hunt Marc Aronson sets the tone for the book early. In his Note to the Reader he states that much of what you, as well as everybody else, know about the Salem witch trials is wrong. Aronson also says that it is impossible to know what really happened as there is a lack of evidence leavin...