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Feb 03, 2009

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Jun 25, 2011

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Nov 30, 2008

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Oct 06, 2011

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Apr 12, 2009

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Witch Child, by Celia Rees explores a very contradictory issue that existed in America for a vast amount of time. The Salem Witch trials are studied in classes to this day, and the events that took place still haunt many people. This novel does not focus directly or bluntly state the events of the Salem Witch Trials, but is obviously focused in that central time period. The setting of this novel is essential in the plot, which is something I do not regularly see in other texts. This unique focus More...

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Feb 11, 2009

Telka rated it:

Witch Child is about a girl named Mary Newbery. She thinks she is a witch because the people in England accused her grandmother of being a witch. this story takes place in 1659, and is written in multiple diary entries from Mary's point of view. Once Mary's Grandmother dies, she goes on a ship to Salem, Massachusetts. Later in the story, Mary is certain that she will get hanged by the townspeople. After all, Salem was known for its harsh witch trials...
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Feb 11, 2009

Jamie rated it:

This book is about a girl named Mary. Her grandmother gets killed because the towns people thought she was a withch. Now Mary has to leave her home before she gets killed as well. Her long lost mother came to save her and she got placed in a loving home with Martha, her forever freind who is like a second mother to her. All is going well untill the town's pastor Reverend Johnson suspects that Mary is a witch. This gets confirmed by the man who told the people in her old home that her gra More...

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Feb 11, 2009

David rated it:

Witch Child is about a young girl and her grandomother witch who was captured and killed with proof thats shes a witch.Mary was then to the mysterious women whosent a letter and gave it to Mary to a guy named John rivers.She helped wher because Mary's grandmother saved her life and she would do anything to repaid of what kindness she did.
During the boat ride Mary met a lot of new people that doesn't know if she a witch or not including herself.She met Martha a kind women, Jonah and Tobias, More...

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Feb 11, 2009

Ilana rated it:

Mary is a witch. People shun her and call her names. Mary's grandmother was also a witch and had healing gifts, but people hung her and tortured her to get the witch craft out of Mary's grandmother. Mary is a puritan and is coming to the New World... but she must keep her witch craft secret, because if people found out she would be in big trouble. But when the villagers find out the true story of Mary's past... terror is stricken and madness is about, what will protect Mary from this danger of h More...

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Feb 11, 2009

Kristian rated it:

this book is very intence. this girl named Mary is a witch so in the begining of the book people came to there house and took her grandma. They knew she was a witch so they put her through these tasks she failed 1 test and then they hung her. right before the hanging some lady grabbed Mary and took her to her home. Mary still had no clue who this was she was a rich lady and then after a while Mary figured out that that rich lady was he mother. Mary was like what. her mother explained the whole t More...

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Oct 27, 2011

Roberta rated it:

Galleggia!

In città vivono nove streghe, tre vestite di lana, tre vestite di stracci, tre del miglior velluto...

Inghilterra, 1659. La giovane Mary assiste all'impiccagione per stregoneria della nonna Alice Nuttall. Subito dopo viene aiutata da una giovane e graziosa donna che organizza la sua partenza verso il Nuovo Mondo insieme a un gruppo di puritani in fuga dall'Inghilterra.

Non aspettatevi un libro fantasy o horror sulle streghe. La stregoneria di cui parla Celia More...

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Oct 10, 2011

Alexander added it

Witch Child is about a girl who's grandmother was hanged for being a witch, so she was tooken away by a women that looked rich. she was brought to an inn to stay there for the night. The next day she was taken to a ship, and met John Rivers and his family. She met a women named Martha Everdale she was traveling all alone like Mary was so she decided to stick with Martha. Traveled together to America and they arrived at Salem, then they had to travel through the woods after they made it to the en More...

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Sep 13, 2011

Lya06 rated it:

Qui la recensione completa: http://bookland89.blogspot.com/2011/04/r...

Il libro si apre con un appunto fatto dall’autrice che ci dice che ha per caso scoperto un diario datato 1659 all’interno di una trapunta molto antico. Per quale motivo un diario dovrebbe essere stato cucito all’interno di una coperta? Chi era la misteriosa scrittrice?
Proprio a queste domande il diario risponde raccontando la storia di Mary, ragazza di quattordici anni che all’improvviso rimane sola poiché viv More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Relyn rated it:

One of the things I was really looking forward to about this vacation is all the time in the car to read. Humph! I didn't bring a single book that I wanted to read. No kidding. At the time I packed, I was tired and I grabbed really light reading. When it came time to read, I really wanted a story, you know? Instead, I read all my magazines and bought more.

One of the things Jeffrey and I always do in a new city is go to the art museum and seek out good used bookstores. I foun More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Ms. LaPorte rated it:

I read this title looking for material to connect with Colonial History. Certainy "witches" would peak student interest.

Why did people seek passage to the new world? (page 19) "We live in diffficult times." Charles is in excile. "Putitans, separatists, people who fear that their faith will no longer be tolerated. They are leaving for a new life. In America."

With them, they took prejudice...

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May 01, 2011

Jessie rated it:

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Apr 18, 2011

Megan rated it:

“I am Mary. I am a witch.”

Witch Child tells the story of a girl named Mary, whose grandmother was hanged for being a witch. She had to leave, before the townspeople turned on her as well. And so she was taken away from the only home she’s know by a mysterious woman she’s never met, Mary is sent to America for her own safety. But life aboard a ship of Puritans heading to the New World is just as dangerous as it was back home in England – maybe more so. Can she keep her secret? O More...

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Feb 09, 2011

Cassandra rated it:

This story is from the perspective of Mary who is a witch. It is a hard thing to be in her time because she lives in the English world where the Puritans around her are forever seeing the devil around the corner. Mary lives with her grandmother who is a healer and midwife. People in their village begin to accuse her grandmother of witchcraft that she never committed and she is eventually hanged. Mary is forced to flee and is saved by her mother who she had never met before and she only has a sho More...

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Jan 28, 2011

Kim rated it:

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Apr 06, 2010

Polly rated it:

With hardly a glimmer of any hocus pocus nonsense, Witch Child is a sympathetic portrayal of a girl educated by her grandmother in the folk-lore and herbal remedies used in the seventeenth century.

We follow Mary's flight from the persecutors who seem intent on destroying her happy family situation to teh new settlements in America. There Mary hopes to build a new life for herself, helped by many kindly people that she encounters. I particularly enjoyed the historical details, whi More...

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Feb 15, 2010

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Nov 05, 2009

NSAndrew rated it:

This was my favorite book to read this week. I don’t know why, it just was the story that engrossed me into the book. You all should read this book. It is kind of a cross between a documentary, thriller, and a love story. I believe our current students would extremely enjoy this book. With the popularity of vampires and Harry Potter, children will love the supernatural aspect of this book. Teachers will love the historical facts and situations interwoven into the story.
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Aug 02, 2009

Syd rated it:

"First they walked her, marching her up and down, up and down between them for a day and a night until she could no longer hobble, her feet all bloody and swollen. But she would not confess. So they set about to prove she was a witch…"

When young Mary Newbury’s grandmother is accused and hanged for being a witch Mary disguises herself as a Puritan girl set to America. Challenges find her around every turn. She reaches America after a long voyage and finds herself in a new se More...

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May 13, 2009

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Mar 26, 2009

Lisa rated it:

Witch Child is about a girl named Mary Newbery. She thinks she is a witch because the people in England accused her grandmother of being a witch. this story takes place in 1659, and is written in multiple diary entries from Mary's point of view. Once Mary's Grandmother dies, she goes on a ship to Salem, Massachusetts. Later in the story, Mary is certain that she will get hanged by the townspeople. After all, Salem was known for its harsh witch trials...
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Mar 28, 2010

Daisy J rated it:

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Mar 02, 2011

Bryan rated it:

Transporting the young reader to seventeenth century America, Witch Child is a purported diary of Mary Nuttall, a teenage girl eventually suspected of being a witch. It begins in England, where Mary’s grandmother is tortured, tried and hung for what others believe is witchcraft. A protector sends Mary across the sea to live in a Puritan settlement and escape persecution. She assists Martha in medicine, gathering herbs and helping people heal and attending to women in labor.

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Feb 11, 2009

Owen added it

This book is about a girl named May. She grew up in england. Her grandmother was a witch and so was her mother. Mary had to flee to america to safty. She made friends on the way like a boy named Jack who fell in love with Mary on the journey there. Or Martha she became like Mary's mother in a way. There is also Tobis, Rebekah, and Jaybird. Mary moves to america, but she finds out she is a witch. She doesnt know how long it can remain a secret for.

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Oct 01, 2009

Misty rated it:

Initial reaction: 4.5. Damn close to a 5, actually. I may bump it up.

Here is a teaser from my review:
Witch Child takes the form of a diary written by Mary Nuttal (claiming to be Mary Newbury). After her grandmother is killed for supposedly being a witch, Mary is sent to America to assume a new identity and sever all ties with her past, ties which may get her killed. She takes up with a colony of Puritans traveling to the New World, and soon finds a place among them. But she More...

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Oct 11, 2011

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