Burning Issy

by Melvin Burgess

Book Overview

A haunting and original retelling of the infamous Pendle witch trials""Are you frightened of dying, Issy?""Issy is a foster child who doesn't know where she came from or who she really is. Night after... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671890034
• ISBN13: 9780671890032
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

I loved this book

My parents bought this book for me when I was a teenager. I loved it! At the time I didn't know it was based on the pendle witches in Lancashire, England. Easy to read and follow.

Burning Issy

"This is about a young girl named Issy who tries to unravel the truth to who she really she is."Isabel her real name,was brought out of the North when she was about 2 years old with nothing,but her name and a dream of fire. Ten years later,a strang woman named Iohan came and took her where she would soon find out who she is."If you like mysteries and adventures this is the book for you."Melvin Burgess,the author has also written The Cry of the Wolf,which was a runner-up for England's perstigious Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in 1991.He makes the settings of the story seem so real as if they were real places from the seventeenth-century. "If you like fictional mysteries this is a great book for you to read.If you want to read this awsome book try searching at your local public or school library."

Burring Issy

This book is perfect for those of all ages. It can be used as a bedtime story or as an insight on a report. It has a lot of factual information without giving witches a bad name. Most people have misconceptions as to what life was like so many years back. This book portrays the life of a peasant and the hardships associated with being one. Burning Issy puts you in the eyes of a little girl and tells how she survived one of the biggest events of her time. The Witch Trials.