I Walk in Dread (9780545388047) Page 15

  Lisa Rowe Fraustino teaches English at Eastern Connecticut State University and is the critically acclaimed author of many books for children and young adults. Her picture book The Hickory Chair was named an ALA Notable Book, a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book, and an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award winner. Her young adult novel Ash was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age. She has also edited several young adult fiction anthologies, including Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets, Soul Searching: Thirteen Stories About Faith and Belief, and Don’t Cramp My Style: Stories About That Time of the Month. She lives in northeastern Connecticut with her family.

  Acknowledgments

  I thank the Star Pants critique group — Sue Bartoletti, Han Nolan, and Ann Sullivan — for listening to multiple drafts of this book. Thanks go to my friend Dianne Hess for all of the Saturday walks in Central Park during which we brain-stormed ideas for projects, including this one. To my kids, Daisy, Dan, and Olivia: Thank you for turning down the TV so I could concentrate. I really appreciate the support and careful attention of Beth Levine and the other editors, and especially the vetter at Scholastic who helped me improve the manuscript and saved me from mistakes. Finally, I am deeply indebted to all of the historians and scholars without whose painstaking research I could not have written this book, particularly Mary Beth Norton for In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2002); Marilynne K. Roach for The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002); and Bernard Rosenthal for Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692 (New York: Cambridge UP, 1993).

  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use the following:

  Cover portrait by Tim O’Brien.

  Cover background: Bettman/Corbis, New York, New York.

  Hornbook, The Granger Collection, New York, New York.

  New England Primer, ibid.

  Trial of Giles Corey’s wife, North Wind Picture Archives, Alfred, Maine.

  Trial of George Jacobs, Hulton/Getty Images, New York, New York.

  Reverend Cotton Mather, North Wind Picture Archives, Alfred, Maine.

  Woodcut of Tituba Indian, ibid.

  Map by Jim McMahon.

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  Copyright

  While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Deliverance Trembley is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction.

  Copyright © 2004 by Lisa Rowe Fraustino

  Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

  Cover portrait by Tim O’Brien, © 2011 Scholastic Inc.

  Cover background: © Bettman/Corbis, New York, New York

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier hardcover edition as follows:

  Fraustino, Lisa Rowe.

  I walk in dread : the diary of Deliverance Trembley, witness to the Salem witch trials /

  by Lisa Rowe Fraustino. — 1st ed.

  p. cm. — (Dear America)

  Summary: Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.

  ISBN 0-439-24973-2

  1. Trials (Witchcraft)—Massachusetts—Salem—Juvenile fiction.

  [1. Trials (Witchcraft)—Fiction. 2. Witchcraft—Fiction.

  3. Puritans—Fiction. 4. Prejudices—Fiction. 5. Sisters—Fiction.

  6. Salem (Mass.)—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775—Fiction.

  7. Diaries—

  Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.

  PZ7.F8655Iae 2004

  [Fic]—dc22

  2004005606

  This edition first printing, September 2011

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