Conversion

Conversion

A chilling mystery based on true events, from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe.
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Itâ€™s senior year, and St. Joanâ€™s Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades, college applications, boysâ€™ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the schoolâ€™s queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class.

The mystery illness spreads to the school's popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joanâ€™s buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic.
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Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleenâ€”whoâ€™s been reading The Crucible for extra creditâ€”comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries agoÂ .Â .Â .

Inspired by true eventsâ€”from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high schoolâ€”Conversion casts a spell.

"[Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green."â€”USA Today

"...this creepy, gripping novel is intimately real and layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history."â€”The New York Times

"A chilling guessing game . . . that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike."â€”Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Country USA
Brand Speak
Manufacturer Speak
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_0147511550
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-06-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780147511553

Country	USA
Brand	Speak
Manufacturer	Speak
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	part_0147511550
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2015-06-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780147511553

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