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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
4) The Witch
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
5) Hocus pocus
Series
Formats
Description
After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Follow the Russo family as they vacation at the Caribbean resort where Jerry and Theresa first met. Alex's mom makes her go on the family vacation - something Alex is not too pleased about. She conjures a spell that erases her parents' fateful first meeting and puts the Russo family's very existence in peril.
10) Wyrd Sisters
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Description
A sci-fi fantasy tale of sorcery and spells, witches and warts, and a fool who's smarter than he looks.
11) The craft
Pub. Date
1996; 2000
Description
A supernatural horror story filled with special effects about a group of unpopular high-school girls who dabble in witchcraft. Once unleashed, the power becomes too much for them to handle, leading to a battle for control between Sarah, the new girl in the group, and power-crazed Nancy.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Protecting the innocent, vanquishing evil and evil doers, and generally righting the wrongs that others have bestowed, are not exactly on the agenda of the average twenty-something on the fast track to discovering what life's all about. But for the Halliwell sisters, this has become their destiny
16) Abigail
Pub. Date
2020
Description
When people start dying from a mysterious illness, eight- year-old Abigaiĺs town closes itself off from the outside world and takes away everyone infected with the disease, including Abigaiĺs father. Ten years later, after a scuffle with a Security Inspector, Abby discovers her father could still be alive and vows to find him no matter what it takes. Filled with danger and discoveries, Abby's journey completely...
17) The craft
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
A supernatural horror story filled with special effects, about a group of unpopular high-school girls who dabble in witchcraft. Once unleashed, the power becomes too much for them to handle, leading to a battle for control between Sarah, the new girl in the group, and power-crazed Nancy.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The Power of Three continues to work in mysterious ways as the magical Halliwell sisters are called to travel back in time, protect the Innocents from the deadly demon Sarpedon, and keep Zankou from claiming the powerful Book of Shadows. Join the Charmed Ones in the ultimate battle of impending doom when the almighty Avatars from ancient Egypt plot to vanquish anyone who threatens their Utopian transformation of the world.
20) I am not a witch
Description
When eight-year-old Shula turns up alone and unannounced in a rural Zambian village, the locals are suspicious. A minor incident escalates to a full-blown witch trial, where she is found guilty and sentenced to life on a state-run witch camp. There, she is tethered to a long white ribbon and told that if she ever tries to run away, she will be transformed into a goat. As the days pass, Shula begins to settle into her new community, but a threat looms...
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