Ebook {Epub PDF} Witch Child by Celia Rees

 · Witch Child, by Celia Rees explores a very contradictory issue that existed in America for a vast amount of time. The Salem Witch trials are studied in classes to this day, and the events that took place still haunt many people/5. Published in , Witch Child is an epistolary children’s novel written by English author Celia Rees. Set in seventeenth-century Old England and New England, the story follows fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury, a young witch-girl forced to make a daring escape to the New World after her grandmother is hanged to death for being a witch. Her novel, Witch Child, won the prestigious Prix Sorcières in France, and the Di Cento Prize in Italy. Celia lives in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, with her husband, Terry and her Spanish rescue cat, Lyra. Her daughter, Catrin, now lives and works in London/5().

But Rees handles this part of the story well, just enough to get the drift of what life was like during that period. The main characters were likeable, the story line moved right along. Now I'm going to read Sorceress which is a sequel to Witch Child - hoping it will be as good as the other Celia Rees I've read. Published in , Witch Child is an epistolary children's novel written by English author Celia Rees. Set in seventeenth-century Old England and New England, the story follows fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury, a young witch-girl forced to make a daring escape to the New World after her grandmother is hanged to death for being a witch. Celia Rees (born ) is an English author of children's, YA and Adult fiction. She was born in in Solihull, West Midlands but now lives in Leamington Spa with her husband. Rees attended University of Warwick and earned a degree in History of Politics.

Celia Rees is the author of many novels for teens. WITCH CHILD is her first with Candlewick Press. After reading about seventeenth-century 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. INTRODUCTION. Celia Rees’ “Witch Child” is a superb novel. This guide provides materials to support your understanding of character, plot and setting. While emphasis is placed on the promotion and development of independent reading, there are lots of comprehension questions and writing tasks which will help you reflect on your own reading strategies and also develop new ways of approaching the text. Witch Child, by Celia Rees explores a very contradictory issue that existed in America for a vast amount of time. The Salem Witch trials are studied in classes to this day, and the events that took place still haunt many people.