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Role-playing takes on a terrifying cast when 17-year-old Sarah, posing as a fortune-teller for a school fair, begins to see actual visions that can predict the future. Frightened, the other students brand her a witch, setting off a chain of events that mirror the centuries-old Salem witch trials in more ways than one. From the Paperback edition.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Lois Duncan
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