Celia rees is the author of several childrens books and young adult novels, including every step you take, the vanished, midnight hour, soul taker, truth or dare, sovay, the fools girl, and many others. Witch child 2002 read online free book by celia rees in. Witch child by celia rees, 9781408800263, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Celia rees is one of britains foremost writers for teenagers and her titles for bloomsbury have enjoyed huge success. Celia rees was born in solihull, west midlands, uk. And you can click on each books cover for more details. The main characters were likeable, the story line moved right along. The salem witch trials are studied in classes to this day, and the events that took place still haunt many people. With its theme of religious intolerance and its touches of the supernatural, this is. Witch child by celia rees is an epistolary novel about a fourteenyearold girl who flees the witch hunts in england and settles in a puritan colony in america. Celia rees has 36 books on goodreads with 44 ratings. But rees handles this part of the story well, just enough to get the drift of what life was like during that period. She studied history and politics at warwick university and then went on to teach english in city. Celia rees witch child is an amazing story and also a true story.
This book is written based on a diary found in the 1600s about a girl named mary and her journey trying to hide who she is. Witch child, by celia rees explores a very contradictory issue that existed in america for a vast amount of time. Welcome to the official website for celia rees, leading writer for young adults. After reading about seventeenthcentury witch persecutions and native american shamanism, she says, it occurred to me that the beliefs and skills that would have condemned a woman to death in one society would have been revered in another.
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