that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike.'- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review '.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. ' Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green.'- USA Today. Inspired by true events-from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school- Conversion casts a spell. Pollution? Stress? 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. Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Joan's buzzes with rumor rumor erupts into full-blown panic.

The mystery illness spreads to the school's popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. Until the school's queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Grades, college applications, boys' texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. A chilling mystery based on true events, from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe.

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