Author: Celia Rees
Reading level: Young Adult
Publisher: Candlewick\
Rated 10/10
It is 1659 and Mary Newbury, theyoung granddaughter of a witch, sees her wise and beloved grandmother tortured and hanged as a servant of the Devil. Then a stranger with hauntingly familiar eyes approaches her with an opportunity--safe passage to America. But the difficult ocean voyage only leads her to a community of inflexible, fearful grownups who try to decide for her who and what she will be. Mary must disguise herself as a pious Puritan girl, hiding her true nature, or else face terrible danger once again.
Now that the pages of Mary's journal have come to light, discovered in their centuries-old hiding place between the patches of a quilt, listeners can experience what it was like living in a society where differences were feared and defiance was deadly.
MY REVIEW
I give this book an A+. I really enjoyed reading it. It wasn't full of shit like a lot of books and it felt real like it actually happened. It's written in the style of a diary and it just makes it seem more personal that way.It makes me happy to live in a time of common sense and religious freedom,if something bad happened it wouldn't be blamed on witchcraft nowdays.Also made me mad at how early european americans viewed Native Americans and their beautiful sacred way of life. It gave you a look at how people were not too bright back then and those that were,were persecuted for it. I guess it wasn't considered such a great thing in those days to be intelligent. Makes me 100% happy to live today. Very well paced and full of lil facts if you're a history buff like myself.Even though Mary considered herself a witch she never made any of those bad things happen and it goes to show what jealousy and unintelligence can do to people.
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