Elizabeth

by Willo Davis Roberts

Book Overview

When someone points an accusing finds and cries "Witch!" Elizabeth faces a choice--between a lie that could doom a friend, and the truth that would threaten her own life. The truth could also ruin... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590331361
• ISBN13: 9780590331364
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

One of the Better Sunfire Books

Upon the death of their father, Elizabeth and her younger brother and sister go to live with their aunt and uncle in a small town that neighbors Salem, Massachusetts...during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. Elizabeth's uncle turns out to be extremely strict...especially on Elizabeth's brother, and after a childish indiscretion, her uncle actually sends her brother off to be an indentured servant...in Salem. Between Elizabeth's fear for her brother, all the hard work, trying to fit in in a new town, and her confusing feelings for a young farmer, Elizabeth's life has become more complicated than she ever dreamed possible. But it's about to get more complicated. Elizabeth, on one of her long walks, happens to meet Nell, a young woman who has recently come from Barbados to live with her grandmother, and Johnny, a young man Elizabeth suspects of being the highwayman that has recently terrorized the village. Elizabeth unexpectedly finds a place to belong and true friendship with these social outcasts and begins to secretly meet with them. But then Nell is accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth knows that the charge is not true, but by speaking up, she will reveal her own deceit and perhaps implicate herself as well. And if all that were not enough, Elizabeth fears that she has fallen in love...with the highwayman!

Another great Sunfire book!

Elizabeth is an orphan, who, along with her younger brother and sister, has come to a small town not far from Salem, Massachusetts, to live with her aunt and uncle. But it's 1692, and there are witch hunts in Salem. When the witch fever spreads to her own town and her best friend is accused of being a witch, Elizabeth must choose between speaking up for her friend and risking her own life, or standing by quietly and allowing her innocent friend to die. How can she choose?