A Break with Charity
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A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials (ISBN 0-15-204682-8) is a novel by Ann Rinaldi released in 1992, and is part of the Great Episodes series.
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The story begins with a girl named Susanna English who desperately wants to join an inner circle of girls who meet every night at the Reverend's house. The leader of the girls, Ann Putnam, is going to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment of innocent people in Salem. She names people her mother disliked as witches, and the elders of Salem believe them. Ann tells Susanna everything about their plan, but if Susanna tells anyone, Ann will name Susanna's parents as witches. Susana must choose between keeping quiet and breaking charity (that is, telling tales), risking her family being named as witches. Later on, the afflicted girls accuse Susanna's mother and father of being witches, even though she told no one about what Ann said to her. She finally tells Joseph, Ann's uncle, leader of the "non-witch believers" what she knows, and together, they put a stop to it. Fourteen years later she returns to hear Ann Putnam apologize for all the innocent people imprisoned, or hanged. This story is based on true happenings of 1692.
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Term Paper (1980) • Promises Are for Keeping (1982) • But in the Fall I'm Leaving (1985) • Time Enough for Drums (1986) • The Good Side of My Heart (1987) • The Last Silk Dress (1988) • Wolf by the Ears (1991) • In My Father's House (1992) • The Second Bend in the River (1997) • Mine Eyes Have Seen (1997) • Amelia's War (1999) • The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color, 1832 (2000) • Girl in Blue (2001) • Millicent's Gift (2002) • Taking Liberty: (2002) • Numbering All the Bones (2002) • Sarah's Ground (2004) • Mutiny's Daughter (2004) • Nine Days a Queen (2005) • Brooklyn Rose (2005) • The Color of Fire (2005) • The Redheaded Princess (2008) • My Vicksburg (2009) • Leigh-Anne's Civil War (2009) • The Family Greene (2010) • The Last Full Measure (November 2010)
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