I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembly, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691 (Dear America Series) |  | Author: Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 39661
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 206
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0439249732
EAN: 9780439249737
ASIN: 0439249732
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
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Product Description
Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village, where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But when four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, Deliverance finds herself caught up in the ensuing drama of the trials. And life in Salem is never the same.
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 I wish they would make more of these books May 22, 2009
Veronica P. Garrett
This book is really good. It's about this girl named Deliverance, and she's in the middle of the Salem witch trials. Her best friend is accused of being a witch. Read the book to find out the rest!
Tear jerker May 16, 2009
Robin E. Minarich (Port Richey, FL USA)
I bought this book for my daughter. The Dear America books are good books for young girls to read. I do recommend the book, One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping. This book will make you cry. My daughter wasn't sure if she could even finish the book, but she couldn't put it down.
 I Walk in Dread:The Diary of Deliverance Trembly December 2, 2008
L. Broomhead (Halifax PA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Looks like it will be an excellent book. Plan on sharing with my granddaughter.
Salem Through the Eyes of a Child December 1, 2008
Ana Mardoll (United States)
I Walk in Dread / 0-439-24973-2
I love the Dear America books, and this one doubly so - here is a subject about which I can claim to be a semi-expert! I've studied Salem for years and have more books on the subject than I can easily count, so I had high hopes for this book - and the author did not disappoint.
The Good: This is a spectacular rendition of the Salem history. The author walks an incredibly fine line here, and manages to be perfectly respectable of religious belief whilst still maintaining a healthy concern that the witch-hunters may be motivated by causes other than the supernatural (illness, or maliciousness, or boredom and confusion are all presented as possible motives). Nor are only the "accusing girls" looked at here - an important point is carefully made about the magistrates at the trials and their complete unwillingness to consider any possibility that the "accused" might, in fact, be innocent. This is a crucial lynchpin issue of the Salem trials, and I was pleased that it was noted so carefully here.
Tension in the book is heightened by the fact that the author's own sister is completely taken with the spectacle of the trials and the diarist fears that she may, eventually, be accused by her own sister - more out of sibling rivalry and difficult family dynamics than anything else. When the two girls work out their differences, the elder sister realizes how close she came to falsely believing slander against her sister, and the scales fall from her eyes, as it were. The family flees the Salem area mid-way through the trials, in order to avoid being swept up into the continuing frenzy.
The Bad: Obviously the subject matter is a bit touchy for very small children - parents will need to be ready to explain witchcraft and witchery as the Puritans understood it. And, of course, several people are executed in the course of these trials, and a small child will likely be deeply upset by the injustice and cruelty of those involved. I do not believe that children should be prevented from learning about this important stain on our history, just that this learning should take place in a nurturing environment where the parent can answer these hard questions. I hope this review will help with that part.
An interesting retelling of the Salem Witch Trials October 20, 2008
z hayes (plano,texas)
I love most of the books in the Dear America series and this particular book covering the period of the Salem Witch Trials made for an interesting read. It is written [as with all the other books in the series] in the form of diary entries by 12-year-old Deliverance Trembley, an orphan who lives with her seventeen-year-old sick sister Mem [her brother is in the military] on a farm in Salem Village in 1691. Her uncle who is also guardian to Deliverance and Mem has gone away to sea and has warned the girls not to disclose the information to others.Things are stressful enough but worse is to come as a group of girls start accusing villagers of witchcraft causing panic, confusion and terror. Deliverance begins to question the girls' credibility when seemingly innocent people are accused of witchcraft.
The story here though fiction is based on actual events in history and makes for riveting reading. For those who would like to read other works of fiction inspired by the Salem Witch Trials, I would recommend A Break with Charity [a YA novel written by Ann Rinaldi] and also The Witch of Blackbird Pond [for younger readers]. There is also a very interesting and authentic TV production centring on the Salem Witch Trials titled Three Sovereigns for Sarah [starring Vanessa Redgrave] which brings the events to life onscreen.
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