by KatherineHowe (Author)
Colleen is feeling the heat. It's her final year of school, and university applications and deciphering boys' texts have turned life into a pressure cooker. Colleen and her friends are expected to somehow keep it all together - until they can't.
The first victim is gorgeous, popular Clara who starts having loud and uncontrollable tics while her horrified classmates look on. More students follow suit with new symptoms: seizures, body vibrations, violent coughing fits, and hair loss. The media descends as school officials, angry parents and health experts scramble to find something, or someone, to blame. But there is one thing no one has factored in: the school's town was once Salem Village, the site of a similarly bizarre epidemic among teenage girls three hundred years earlier - and it seems history is about to repeat itself.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Publisher: Rock the Boat
Published: 04 Jun 2015
ISBN 10: 1780747721
ISBN 13: 9781780747729
Book Overview: 'Brilliant, scary, and impossible to put down, Conversion weaves together the Salem witch trials with a mysterious present-day illness that sweeps through an all-girls high school. It's the perfect storm of suspense, history, romance, and teen angst. A five-star read!' -- Nancy Ohlin, author of Always, Forever and Beauty 'Smart, compelling, exciting, and completely absorbing. Katherine Howe is stunningly deft at blurring the lines between the emotional and the supernatural. I recommend clearing your calendar before you start reading this novel.' -- David Liss, bestselling author of The Twelfth Enchantment 'How is it possible for a novel to be funny, suspenseful, tender, wickedly satiric, and terrifying all at once? When it's written by the bewitchingly talented Katherine Howe. Once again she transports us back in time to the tragic events in Salem Village that led to the deaths of more than twenty innocent citizens. This time, however, she turns an equally discerning eye on the academic and social pressures of an elite private school in contemporary times. The parallels she draws between the two worlds are provocative and haunting; whether you're a parent or a high-school student, you'll never look at the college rat race the same way again!' -- Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of And the Dark Sacred Night and The Three Junes