Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8362
Points per Word
0.00012
Page Count
106
Points per Page
0.009434
Series
What Was.../What Is...?
Description
Nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony after girls began having hysterical fits in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts.