Most titles are available in museum's gift shop.

Elementary School

Witch Trials Hysteria

Cobblestone, The History Magazine for Young People, September 1988

Jackson, Shirley. The Witchcraft Of Salem Village, Popular Library, 1956 - to be read to the class

Krensky, Stephen. Witch Hunt: it happened in Salem Village Random House, 1989

Lindsey, Clifford. The Devils Shadow, J. Messner, 1967

Stevens, Bryna. Witches (Great Mysteries, Opposing Viewpoints), Greenhaven Press, 1988

Early Trade

Ai-Ling, Louie. Yen-Shen: A Cinderella Story From China, Philomel, 1989. - for cross cultural units

Drummond, Allan. The Willow Pattern Story, North South Books, 1992 will enrich plate painting activity at the museum.

Carpenter, Alan. The New Enchantment Of America, Children's Press, 1965

Carpenter, Alan. How They Lived - A Colonial American Merchant. Wayland Publishing

Haskins, Jim. Count Your Way Through China Carolrhoda, 1987 - For math in interdiciplinary units.

Latham, Jean Lee. Carry on Mr. Bowditch, Houghton Mifflin, 1955

Lasky, Kathryn. Tall Ships, Scribners, 1978

Lee, Jane M. Legend Of The Milky Way, Henry Holt, 1982

Lynch-Watson, Jay. The Shadow Puppet Book, Sterling Publishing Co., 1982 - For art in the interdiciplinary units.

Williams, Jay. Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like, Four Winds Press, 1986.

Wyndham, Robert. Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, Philomel, 1968. - For cross cultural units.

Young, Ed. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China., Philomel, 1989. - For cross cultural units.

Middle School

Chamberlain, E.R. Everyday Life in the Nineteenth CenturySilver Burdett, 1986.

Grant, Neil. Everyday Life in the Eighteenth CenturySilver Burdett, 1986.

Knight, James E. Salem Days, Popular Library, 1956

Regan M.B. Famous Ships of American History,Scholastic Book Services. - Excellent art work appropriate for all ages.

High School

Witch Trials Hysteria

Non-Fiction

Alderman, Clifford Lindsey The Devils Shadow: The Story of Witchcraft in Massachusetts, Pocket Books, 1970. - A well researched and readable narrative history that describes in detail the background, participants and effects of the witchcraft trials in Salem Village.

Dickinson, Alice. The Salem Witchcraft Delusion, 1692: Have You Made No Contract With the Devil?, Franklin Watts, Inc, 1974. - Discusses teh social and religious climate that led to the Salem witch hunts and describes the trials and their aftermath.

Jackson, Shirley The Witchcraft Of Salem Village, Popular Library, 1956 - Relates how the ravings of a group of schoolgirls precipitated the hysteria nd covers the procedures of the trials and the end of the delusion.

Starkey, Marion. The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials, Doubleday, 1949

Starkey, Marion. The Visionary Girls: Witchcraft in Salem Village, Little, Brown & Co., 1973. - Tells the story of the madness that gripped Salem Village in 1692, viewing the social, political and psychological make-up of the town, and offers an explanation of why the irrational behaivior took hold.

Fiction/Drama

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: A Play in Four Parts, Bantam Books, 1959. - Play uses the witch trials as a lens to view the McCarthy Era of the 1950's and continuing issues of intolerance.

Petry, Ann. Tituba of Salem Village, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1964. - Fictionalized account of the life of the slave Tituba and her role in the hysteria.

Early Trade

Non-Fiction

Carse, Robert. The Young Mariners: A History of Maritime SalemW.W. Norton, Co.,1966. - A history of the men of Salem who competed on equal terms with European merchants and dominated world trade for nearly half a century.

National Park Service. Salem : Maritime in the Age of Sail U. S. Department of Interior,1987. -Traces the development of the maritime interests of Salem, the lives of the traders and sailors, the ships, and the scope of the trade.

Phillips, James Duncan, Pepper and Pirates, Houghton-Mifflin,1949. -The story of the perils faced by Salem ships and sailors in the fabulously lucrative Sumatran pepper trade.

Fiction

Forbes, Esther. The Running of the TideHoughton,1948. - Period novel relating the story of the ship-owning Inman family during the great merchant shipping days of Salem.

Haywood, Charles. Eastwood the Sea,Nicholas-Ellis Press,1942. - Set in 1808, relates the jouneys and adventures of the men from Salem and Marblehead who defied the Embargo Act.

Wibberley, Leonard, Sea Captain From Salem, Farrar, Strauss, Cudahy,1961. - Set at the time of the American Revolution, Captain Peace of God Manly, the sea captain fcom Salem, sails to France where he is entrusted with sealed orders from Benjamin Franklin.