Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Youth Services Department

Young Adult 17th Century Fiction


Clapp, Patricia.  Witches' Children : A Story of Salem
During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are the victims of witches.

Crew, Gary. Strange Objects. 
After discovering valuable relics from a seventeenth-century shipwreck, a sixteen-year-old Australian disappears under mysterious circumstances.

Fleischman, Paul.  Saturnalia
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.

Hildick, E. W.  Hester Bidgood, Investigatrix of Evill Deedes. 
Thirteen-year-old Hester Bidgood and her fourteen-year-old friend Rob Macgregor investigate the stoning and branding of a kitten in a New England town caught in the grip of witchcraft rumors during the year 1692.

Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the Burning Time. 
When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.

O'Dell, Scott.  The Serpent Never Sleeps. 
In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.

Sturtevant, Katherine.  At the Sign of the Star.  
In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.