New Releases by Lisa Rowe Fraustino

History comes alive! Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and her daily chores for fear of her cruel uncle''s angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who possesses the skills to read and write, the whispered accusations begin. Within the pages of her diary, Deliverance captures the panic, terror, suspicion, and hysteria that swept through Salem Village during one of the most infamous eras in American history.

An imaginative eleven-year-old named Sebby discovers that the strange things he has been seing are real, and connected somehow with the strip-mining operation that has destroyed his town, but getting help from his bickering family seems unlikely.

A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his grandmother and the gift she left for him after her death.

Eighteen-year-old Ash''s change of behavior and its disruptive effects on his family are recounted by younger brother Wes.

Forced to miss the big baseball tournament, eleven-year-old Timmi spends the summer in the Maine woods with her grandfather and discovers another side of this seemingly aloof man.