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It’s the Salem Witch Trials meets Mean Girls in this New York Times bestselling book from one of the descendants of Cotton Mather, where in fact the trials of high school begin to feel just like a modern-day witch search for a teen with all the current wrong connections to Salem’s past.

Salem, Massachusetts, is the site from the infamous witch trials and the new house of Samantha Mather. Lately transplanted from NEW YORK, Sam and her stepmother aren’t exactly about How to Hang a Witch welcomed with open up arms. Sam is the descendant of Cotton Mather, one of the men in charge of those trials-and almost immediately, she becomes the enemy of a group of girls who contact themselves the Descendants. And speculate who their ancestors were?

If coping with that weren’t enough, Sam also comes in person with a genuine, live (well, technically inactive) ghost. A handsome, angry ghost who would like Sam to stop touching his stuff. But soon Sam discovers she is at the center of a centuries-old curse impacting a person with ties to the tests. Sam must comprehend the ghost and discover a way to work with the Descendants to avoid a deadly routine that is going on because the 1st accused witch was hanged. If any town should have discovered its lesson, it’s Salem. But background may be going to repeat itself.

“It’s like Mean Ladies meets history course in the best possible way.” -Seventeen Publication

“Mather shines a light within the lessons the Salem Witch Trials can educate us about modern-day bullying-and what we are able to do about it.” -Bustle.com

“Attacks a careful balance of creepy, fun, and thoughtful.” -NPR

I am utterly dependent on Mather’s electric debut. It keeps you over the edge of the seat, twisting and turning with spirits, witches, an ancient curse, and-sigh-romance. It’s beautiful. Haunting. The personas are vibrant and real. I. Could. Not really. Put. It. Down.” -Jennifer Niven, bestselling writer of All the Shiny Places