Books about the Salem Witch Trials for Kids
The American Story : 100 true tales from American history by Jennifer Armstrong
(j973 Arm)
Full-color illustrations tell the story of America through one hundred true tales
of triumph and tragedy, from the Mayflower and Wright brothers' flight to the
Watergate break-in and Salem witch trials.
Infamous trials by Bruce Chadwick (j345.73 Cha)
Discusses the Salem witch trials, the court-martial of Benedict Arnold, and the
cases of the Chicago Black Sox, John Scopes, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the
Scottsboro Boys, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and the Chicago Seven.
I walk in dread: the diary of Deliverance Trembley, witness to the Salem Witch Trials by
Lisa Rowe Fraustino (jF Fra)
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and
doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village,
Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend Goody Corey, is condemned as a
witch.
Witches!: the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem by Roaslyn Schanzer (j133.4 Sch
2/12)
Shares the story of the victims, accused witches, corrupt officials, and mass
hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children in Salem Village,
Massachusetts, into a witch hunt that took more than a dozen lives and ruined
hundreds more.