A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials (Great Episodes) [Library Binding]

Ann Rinaldi (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Library Binding
• Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785735488
• ISBN-13: 978-0785735489
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,668,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Break With Charity, September 27, 2003

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Jessica (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials (Great Episodes) (Library Binding)

A Break With Charity is a story about the Salem witch trials. Fourteen-year-old Susanna English is lonely in Puritan town of Salem. She is very lonely, and wishes she had friends. Several of the girls form a circle of witchcraft, which is started as a game. Susanna knows this. But the girls are desparate for attention. Soon they are having pretend fits and saying they have seen the Devil. They name the names of innocent people and call them witches. Susanna's conscience tells her to tell the town how the witch hunt really began. But the witch circle then threatens to accuse her family of being witches. So Susanna keeps her silence. But they cry out on her mother and father anyway. They go to jail. Then the town's magistrates begin to execute the accused. Susanna finally sees that she alone can stop the executions and save the town from murdering the innocent.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST READ, March 26, 2001

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This review is from: A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials (Great Episodes) (Library Binding)

This is definetely one of the best books I have ever read. If you like reading historical fiction you will love this. The book is about a girl living in Salem during the Salem witch trials. She learns that the girls in the circle are lying. She wants to tell that they are lying but is being blackmailed. This is an awesome book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Informative and Absorbing, December 9, 2005

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RS - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials (Great Episodes) (Library Binding)

"A Break With Charity: A Story About the Salem Witch Trials" is about lonliness in the face of a terrible evil. Also, it is about the courage and determination of one young girl to rise above it all and to stand up for the truth, even if she has to go it alone.
Susanna English is a young teenage girl who knows from the onset the truth behind the circle of girls who are acting as though the devil is possessing them in order to accuse people they don't like of witchcraft. Susanna wants to speak out and tell someone that the girls are dissembling (the leader of the group and a slave woman disclose this information to her). She ives in constant fear as innocent people are being hanged that her family will be accused of witchcraft. Eventually, her parents are cried out upon. As they flee, she remains behind out of guilt. To find out what happens to Susanna and her brave family read "A Break with Charity."
This book gave a very clear and accurate portrayal of the Salem Witch Trials. I honestly found no negative complaints about the book. I would give this book a 5.