Good bookThis book is a short good read, it would be perfect for a middle schooler. I'm going to keep this author in mind when my daughter is older.

read this for a school assignment, obviously a solid three. i'm just adding it to up my goal haha.

The salem witch trials is about from a loge time ago there were slavery in 1711 and i like this story because i like history in story we you do not follow the rules you will get hang in a rope and people do not like it we they do that.

I have read a few of the "What were... or Who Is..." series of books. They are always concise and informative. Usually they are aimed at grades 3-7. This one is no different with the exception of who the author is. All of the authors are different for each book. Joan Holub has written a few including this one.I knew a little about the Salem Witch Trials but as usual with these books, I found out a little more. For example, I thought all of the "witches" were burned at the stake in Salem. Actuall...

This book was very good. I liked how it was able to teach you about the Salem Witch Trails but not be so long.

First review of 2016! Wahoo!Something's bubbling and brewing in Salem, Mass. and it's not looking good for several of the villagers. Most adults know the generals of the Salem Witch Trials, but a lot of kids don't. (I asked my fifth graders the exact question "What were the Salem Witch Trials?" and, out of 35 students, only 2 had even heard of and they didn't know what it was.) Holub gives a great introduction to the history of the Trials. She included a lot of little facts that I didn't even kn...

I just read this for the second time (5 years apart) and my rating did change from a 3 star to a 4 star. There was tons of research done for this book and you can sense that within the writing. I always love when real pictures are added in the book.This did feel more like work than pleasure though, and that's why I cannot give it 5 stars.First review: 06/03/2016 - There's too many names written in here that it gets confusing. I kept losing track on who we were talking about.

Easy to digest for little readers, parts of this skinny book will augment our The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

It is very scary because a lot of innocent people were executed just because a doctor thought 2 girls were bewitched!😱

The Salem Witch Trails are a very complex topic, a very complicated subject. This book cleared up what I didn't get about the subject. This book helps you fully understand the unfairness of the trails. I recommend this book to people who love history and/or just like learning abut something new.

Wow, the Salem Witch Trials were crazy! A four year old was convicted??? FOUR YEARS OLD??? And an old grandmother who had never raised a finger against anyone? It's rather dreadful to think about. And I kind of have some mad respect for the man who refused to say whether he was innocent or guilty. What a man. (although not a fun death...)I wonder, did the girls live with regret for the rest of their lives after what they had done? I'm sure I would. It's all so strange, too. The fits and everythi...

What Were the Salem Witch Trials? by Joan Holub details a dark time in the early colonial days in America in Salem Town, Massachusetts. It started when two local girls, Betty Parris and Abegail Williams, started having fits and claimed they were being pricked with pins. The immediate suspicion was that they were under a witch's spell. It soon began to spread to other children and some of them began naming who the witches were. This led to arrests and trials with more than twenty eventually being...

"During the Salem witch trials, about 200 people were unfairly accused of witchcraft. Over 50 of them confessed. Five died in jail, including Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good's baby. Dorcas, Sarah Good's other child, spent 8 months in jail and became mentally ill. Twenty innocent people (14 women and 6 men) were executed, 19 by hanging and 1 by pressing. It was a terrible tragedy."

I liked It but wasn't crazy about It. It is a non fiction book about lying horrible little girls who acted all sick and blamed people calling them witches. They did not give them fair trials. They suffered horrible deaths. Even a four year old. It was also the blame game. one woman blaming the other and same with that one and that one and that one. ( vice versa) What I liked about this is how fascinating it is how every so called witch was a girl. ( well there was two guys..... but that's it!)

I am a slow reader, but I finished reading it at once after my 11-year old daughter showed it to me. She borrowed it from her school library. It's the best history book I have ever read. It's a short and good read. It's rich in research, facts, culture background, characters, and timeline. I learned the origin of witch-hunt and Halloween from this book. Many good new words for me too. It's a very useful book for English-as-a-second-language speakers who live in the US like me to learn some cultu...

The book talks about the Salem Witch Trials where young girls were accusing people of being a witch because the they were getting pinched by them spiritually. This event occurred in 1692 in Salem village. 20 people were killed and 200 were accused with most being killed by hanging except for the one guy that was compressed until his rib cage collapsed. It all start when the Puritan reverend Parris’s two daughters accused 3 people: Tituba (Their slave), Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne (neighbors).I...

Really liked this one. It had several photographs of historic Salem Village which always makes nonfiction text more meaningful to kids. I will recommend this one to students, for sure.

i cant believe this actually happened

I read this thinking that I would learn about a culture, but no it was about witches in history and how they became witches. To what they did, and how they got treated for being Witches. It kind of reminded me of this guys on tiktok who would make fun videos on women, back in the days who could read and writing, but kept a secret until they exposed themselves, so men would believed they were witches. It was funny but It also gave a creepy feeling to it because it did talk about making a contract...

Newsflash, humans really suck.