Newes from the Dead

English

ISBN: 0312608640

EAN: 9780312608644

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Pregnancy/Juvenile Fiction / Business, Careers, Occupations/Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Death & Dying/Juvenile Fiction / General/Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Europe/

Publisher: Square Fish

Release Date: 07/06/2010

Age Range: 14-19

Synopsis: WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!) Anne cant move a muscle, cant open her eyes, cant scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if shes dead, terrified shes buried alive, haunted by her final memoryof being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the eventsand the manthat led her to the gallows. Meanwhile, a shy 18-year-old medical student attends his first dissection and notices something strange as the doctors prepare their tools . . . Did her eyelids just flutter? Could this corpse be alive? Beautifully written, impossible to put down, and meticulously researched,Newes from the Deadis based on the true story of the real Anne Green, a servant who survived a hanging to awaken on the dissection table.Newes from the Deadconcludes with scans of the original 1651 document that recounts this chilling medical phenomenon.

Newes from the Dead

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.74 inches

Width: 5.48 inches

Length: 8.27 inches

Weight: 8.82 oz

Pages: 272