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A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials (Great Episodes)

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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.

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.

"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.

This book was awesome. "Who will they call on next?" is the one question that ran through my mind as I read. Susannah English wanted to join the girls, and listen to the stories and fortune-telling that goes on in the Paris household. Later on, when those girls pretend to be afflicted and cursed, names are called out, those names, are those of "witches." If you read this, you'll learn how Susannah and other Salem villagers survived through the Salem Witch Trials, and how it ended! Fascinating topic Ann, you really got me hooked! READ THIS BOOK!

A Break With Chatiry is a story about the Salem Witch Trials. It is about Susanna English. She wanted to be part of the girl's circle of witchcraft. When the girls were found out their father's made them tell them who their tormenters were. Normally they were their parents enemy, the tormenters. Susanna know they are lying since one of the girls told her it was just a game. Susanna wants to tell her family and her boyfriend, but can not since the girls would cry out on her family. These people are Puritans and the girls just wanted to have fun, since their way of life was kinda of boring. Bad times were on Salem and the people needed a scapegoat.

I would recommend this book to people who are mature. This book is a little gruesome and people should take it seriously since this did happen. We hopfully have learned from their mistakes.

This is a really good book. It is about the salem witch trials and it as always has a little romance thrown in. The main character is watching her town fall apart because of the lies a few little girls are telling. I would recomend it to anyone who likes historical fiction.

I thought A Break With Charity was one of Ann Rinaldi's best works. This novel was filled with much detail. It explained what happened during the Salem Witch Trials, and what it was like for the people who accused others. This book wasn't filled just with facts about the Salem Witch Trials, it told a story about a young, fictional character, whoose family was accused of being witches. In my personal Opinion this was a excellent piece of literature...