Time of the Witches by Anna Myers

Time of the Witches by Anna Myers is about Drucilla and Gabe, two children who were born on the same day and grew up together. They moved from foster home to foster home until they were 12, when they were separated - each being placed with a different family in Salem Village. Dru's family, Thomas and Mistress Ann Putnam, is very strange, while Gabe's is kind and loving. Unfortunately, Dru, seeking only acceptance and love from her new family, finds herself wrapped up in her adoptive family's dangerous game of accusing anyone who opposes them of witchcraft. Not only are the accused tried, but they end up hanged! Dru and Gabe drift further and further apart as she continues to support her strange family - that is, until Ann Putnam accuses Gabe of witchcraft! Dru must devise a plan to free Gabe and all the other innocent prisoners without being accused of witchcraft herself!

This was a great book! The author included some information about the Salem Witch Trials at the end of the book. While Dru and Gabe were fictional characters, most of the others in the story are real! The way this story unfolds is amazing. Ann Myers made it easy to see how people can get caught up in something so crazy.