Our classroom boxes and Halloween cauldrons in the library are overflowing with a great selection of themed titles. There are horror stories, tales about ghosts, ghouls, witches and all things spooky.
These two titles by Celia Rees are fabulous. The story starts in Witch Child and concludes in Sorceress. Told to us in journal form by the young Mary Newbury it all begins in England in 1659 when her beloved grandmother is hanged in a public square for being a witch. Mary flees from the same fate and sets off for the New World. There within the Puritan settlements she finds similar intolerances. There are serious consequences for any hint that you are different in this society.
Fabulous story telling, loved the historical element, the adventure and the hint of supernatural.
