Set in modern day Massachusetts near Harvard University, a small, private all-girls school faces a mystery illness. If the storyline sounds familiar, you are right. Salem, Massachusetts, home of the Salem Witch Trials of the 1700’s played out in a similar fashion. Author Katherine Howe parallels the story of Colleen Rowley and her high school friends to some of the same challenges faced by Ann Putnam and some of her childhood friends growing up in Salem, Massachusetts. If you enjoy realistic fiction mixed with historical fiction, Howe illustrates the teen girls in 1700 Salem as bored, attention-seeking brats who get into a situation from which they cannot turn back and compares that to ways stressed out teens today respond in somewhat similar situations. Check out Conversion at the B-K Jr./Sr. High Library today!