The Minister's Daughter
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 263 pages ; 24 cm
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Matthew, -1647 -- Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction.
Fairies -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction.
Somerset (England) -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction.
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Hopkins, Matthew, -1647 -- Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction.
Fairies -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction.
Somerset (England) -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction.
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Target Audience: 800L
ISBN:
0689876904
Originally published: The Merrybegot. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.