Conversion

Conversion

<b>A chilling mystery based on true events, from <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Katherine Howe.</b><br> <br>It’s senior year, and St. Joan’s Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades, college applications, boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the school’s queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. <br><br>The mystery illness spreads to the school's popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic.<br> <br>Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading<i> The Crucible</i> 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 . . .<br><br>Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—<i>Conversion</i> casts a spell. <br><br><br><b>"[Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green."—<i>USA Today</i></b><br><br><b>"...this creepy, gripping novel is intimately real and layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history."<b>—<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>"A chilling guessing game . . . that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike."—<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, Starred Review</b>