Converstion by: Katherine Howe
It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t.
First, it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic.
Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—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 ago . . .
Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Joan’s?
Conversion by: Katherine Howe
Series: Standalone
Published By: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers on July 1st, 2014
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover
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This book was amazing. Following up about Salem Villages' history in the early 1690s', Katherine Howe includes an incredible remake of the Witchcraft. When Senior year of high school hits for the girls at St Joan's, Colleen and her friends are expected to keep it together and get good grades until they graduate. When a mysterious illness hits one of the popular giving her uncontrollable tics, Colleen's life turns upside down. Rumors here and there start to spread and reporters show up at every doorstep made it even more complicated for everyone.
While the number of girls inflicted grows increasingly, Colleen is reading The Crucible for extra credit, and she slowly starts to unravel the mystery that is impossible for anyone to solve. Trying to find out mysterious secrets and solving what is causing the illness to the girls at St. Joan's becomes essential to Colleen. Soon many of the girls are affected and Colleen is running out of time. She knows that if she doesn't;t figure out who or what is causing the "Mystery Illness", she could be next. While combining a mystery that happened in the 1690s and recreating on that happened in 2012 leaves readers wondering the big dollar question: What really happened to the girls in Salem Village, and what's happening to the girls at St. Joan's?
While the number of girls inflicted grows increasingly, Colleen is reading The Crucible for extra credit, and she slowly starts to unravel the mystery that is impossible for anyone to solve. Trying to find out mysterious secrets and solving what is causing the illness to the girls at St. Joan's becomes essential to Colleen. Soon many of the girls are affected and Colleen is running out of time. She knows that if she doesn't;t figure out who or what is causing the "Mystery Illness", she could be next. While combining a mystery that happened in the 1690s and recreating on that happened in 2012 leaves readers wondering the big dollar question: What really happened to the girls in Salem Village, and what's happening to the girls at St. Joan's?
The novel was really interesting and enjoyable. The mystery of doctors struggling to figure out what was happening to the girls at St. Joan's was thrilling and exciting. Comparing the "Mystery Illness" what happened in Salem Village in the 1690s' to a fictional one that happened in2012 is one a kind puzzle. When learning about some of Colleen's friends' darkest secrets, struggling to find out what was going on to the girls at St. Joan's, is really breathtaking and inspiring, yet the readers still have to solve the question. This book is recommended to readers who enjoy a good mystery and a chilling adventure, as well as a historical remake. Katherine Howe recreates an epic story in Salem Villages' history that will leave readers breathless when the truth is revealed.
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