A break with charity

Susanna English desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage, but she doesn't realize the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations that will lead to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent peoplevictims of a witch-hunt panic. ';The author's skillful manipulation of the conventions of the young-adult novelparticularly the rich exploration of being an outsider and going against the mainstreammakes this book a superb vehicle for examining the social dynamics of this legendary event.' The Horn Book