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Gallows Hill

Lois Duncan

1997227 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997Puffin · 227 pages · ENGISBN 9780140340235
  • 1997Delacorte Press · 229 pages · ENGISBN 9780385323314
  • 2009Random House Children's Books · ENGISBN 9780307525673
  • 1998Laurel Leaf · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780440227250

Role-playing takes on a terrifying cast when 17-year-old Sarah, who is posing as a fortune-teller for a school fair, begins to see actual visions that can predict the future. Frightened, the other students brand her a witch, setting off a chain of events that mirror the centuries-old Salem witch trials in more ways than one.From the Paperback edition.

How it feels

AtmosphereWhimsical

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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Written forMiddle grade

When and where

ThemesJustice
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