Wicked Girls
A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
By Stephanie Hemphill
(Balzer + Bray, Hardcover, 9780061853289, 416pp.)
Publication Date: July 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Historical - General, Girls & Women
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What started out as girls' games became a witch hunt. Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials told from the perspectives of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692.
Ann Putnam Jr. plays the queen bee. When her father suggests that a spate of illnesses within the village is the result of witchcraft, Ann grasps her opportunity. She puts in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of the people around her forever.
Mercy Lewis, the beautiful servant in Ann's house, inspires adulation in some and envy in others. With a troubled past, she seizes her only chance at safety.
Margaret Walcott, Ann's cousin, is desperately in love and consumed with fiery jealousy. She is torn between staying loyal to her friends and pursuing the life she dreams of with her betrothed.
With new accusations mounting daily against the men and women of the community, the girls will have to decide: Is it too late to tell the truth?
A Printz Honor winner for Your Own, sylvia, Stephanie Hemphill uses evocative verse to weave a nuanced portrait of one of the most chilling and fascinating times in our nation's history.
Stephanie Hemphill is the author of Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath and Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems. Your Own, Sylvia was a 2008 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
“The expressive writing, masterful tension, and parallels to modern group dynamics create a powerful and relevant page-turner. ”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An excellent supplementary choice for curricular studies of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, this will also find readers outside the classroom, who will savor the accessible, unsettling, piercing lines that connect past and present with timeless conflict and truths.”
-Booklist (starred review)
“In subtle, spare first-person free-verse poems, the author skillfully demonstrates how ordinary people may come to commit monstrous acts. Haunting and still frighteningly relevant.”
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The verse format is fresh and engaging, distilling the actions of the seven accusing girls into riveting narrative.”
-School Library Journal (starred review)
“An atmospheric tale.”
-Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
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