Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering ... Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first ...

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The protagonist, Fern, is only 15 years old when she gets pregnant ... sense that when Fern and her closest friends receive a book on witchcraft from a librarian they're eager to test it out ...

Marion Gibson’s recent book, “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials ... she was increasingly portrayed as both old and ugly, despite being considered a young and attractive woman ...

The Home’s bookmobile librarian had just given Fern a book of witchcraft, and Fern devoured ... and new attitudes were on their way. Readers old enough to remember this time and this enduringly ...

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix  c.2025 / Berkley / $30 / 496 pages So when are you due? Do you want to know now, long before then, or will you wait to see if your baby’s a boy or a ...

Just make sure to pre-order the book and also check out some of ... Set in 1970 in a home for unwed mothers in Florida, 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls' is about four pregnant teenagers—Rose ...

Another question: will you buy pink clothes or blue ones, or, as in the new book “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix, will you wait to know “witch”?