College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Agent: Suzanne Gluck, William Morris Endeavor. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. A chilling guessing game of a novel that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike. College applications, the battle for valedic. Joans Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery - Prep meets The Crucible. Howe gives Colleen a strong and sure voice, while alternating between the present-day action in 2012 and “Interludes” set in Salem Village in 1706. When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at Colleens high school, her small town of Danvers. Check out this great listen on Audible.ca.

Joan’s, making life a circus for the girls and their families. The school nurse and local medical professionals scroll futilely through diagnoses, and the media descends on St. Conversion Katherine Howe 4.19 - 10.65 The Penguin Book of Witches Katherine Howe 11.49 - 15.54 The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen Katherine Howe 3.99 - 6.89 Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Katherine Howe 10.29 - 17. The condition soon spreads through the school until there are dozens of girls with inexplicable and divergent symptoms-Colleen’s friend Anjali has started coughing up pins.

After Colleen’s classmate Clara has a strange seizure during class, Clara develops shocking, Tourette’s-like verbal and facial tics.

Joan’s Academy, a private Catholic high school in Boston that caters to girls with Harvard-size aspirations. Colleen Rowley and her friends attend St. As she did in her adult novel The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Howe draws thrilling connections between the Salem witch trials and the present day in her YA debut.

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