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Witch Child
By Rees, Celia
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76361-421-8
- Publisher
- Candlewick
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2001
Gr 5-9 Journal entries, found and pieced together from pages stitched inside a 17th-century quilt, are said to be the basis of this captivating tale. As her grandmother is executed as a witch by English village folk, Mary Newbury is abducted by a wealthy woman and shipped off to America. During the long, difficult journey, she makes friends with some of the other Puritan emigrants, finding an older woman to draw her into the community. They join other followers of the Reverend Elias Cornwall to travel to a newly established village deep in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2001
The novel's opening pages describe the torture and hanging of a woman accused of witchcraft. As the young narrator watches her grandmother—the only family she's ever known—being led to the gallows, she fears for her own life. Luckily, Mary and Grandmother really are witches, and help soon arrives, though only in time to save Mary, who is whisked off to America disguised as a Puritan—all under the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
