A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials

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Summary: A book you'll not want to put down!
Review: A Break with Charity Gulliver books Harcourt Brace
Ann Renaldo 1992, 295 pp $6.95
ISBN 0-15-204682-8

"I peered through the naked trees and bushes toward the house. The girls had gone inside now, and, as always, I was standing alone in the bone numbing dusk." That was when Susanna English carefree life would change forever. More than anything Susanna wanted to be in that house with the circle of girls while Tituba a slave tells their futures. The leader of this circle (parsonage) was Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations. These innocent people will be sent to prison and worse. Susanna starts to put pieces together she faces the most life changing choice she will ever have to make. She can choose to say nothing about these false accusing and let innocent people be named as witches or she can "break charity" with the circle of girls or risk having her family named as witches.
Ann Rinaldi is a great Author and has written 32 other books, which I have read 7 of them. Wolf by the Ears, A Break with Charity, The Blue Door, Keep Smiling through, Fighting Liberty, Time Enough for Drums, Quaintness with Darkness. Ann Rinaldi use to write for a newspaper, but now enjoys written historical fiction noels for teenagers and young adults.
This is a great book that you never want to put down. I would say this book is more for girls. This is a intence book, but I would recoment it to all teenage girls.

-By: Brooke Gilbert