Conversion

About this book

A chilling mystery based on true events from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe. Its senior year and St. Joans Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades college applications boys texts: Through it all Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the schools queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. The mystery illness spreads to the schools popular clique then more students and symptoms follow: seizures hair loss violent coughing fits. St. Joans buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic. Everyone scrambles to find something or someone to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleenwhos been reading The Crucible for extra creditcomes 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 eventsfrom seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high schoolConversion casts a spell. "Howe has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green."USA Today "...this creepy gripping novel is intimately real and layered shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history."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."Publishers Weekly Starred Review