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I lost the title of the book – but I can tell you what the cover looks like … please help!?
Alright, I read this book when I was in about fifth grade. I do not remember the title or the author. Oddly enough I remember the plot, the cover, and where it was located in my schools library.
So on the cover there is a girl and she is holding a woman in her lap, and somewhere on the floor is a bowl with red (or orange) poppy flowers. The book is about a girl and her midwife (healer of some sort) mother who is being tried for witchcraft way back when. I think that she is brought to trial because something happens to a woman in childbirth. I know she is imprisoned and as part of her examination they cut off her freckles and moles (devils marks or something…). She is tortured and eventually her daughter sneaks in with poppy to kill her. And her daughter is helped by a neighbor boy.
That is all I remember – this was one of my favorite books when I was younger, so if anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like it might be “The Burning Time” by Carol Matas.
See if these reviews from Amazon.com ring a bell, and if you recognise it from this :
‘I dreamed a fire consumed us all!’ Madame Trembley shook her gnarled finger at us and screamed.” Such are the portentous opening lines of this feverish novel about a witch hunt in 16th-century France. Through no fault of her own, Rose Rives’s mother has earned the enmity of many neighbors: the doctor bitterly resents her midwifery skills, which far surpass his own; the priest hates her for spurning his sexual advances; her late husband’s brothers want control over her land; jealous wives accuse her of bewitching their husbands. When a judge arrives in town demanding the names of witches, Mama’s is among the first submitted. As she did in Daniel’s Story, Matas insists on casting her protagonist in every scene, and she seeks out the extreme: Rose watches the vicious torture of her mother, eavesdrops on the judge’s deliberations with the lewd priest, sneaks in and out of her mother’s jail cell. The overweening injustice of it all may grab YA audiences; however, Matas limits her impact with her inability to convey historical drama through any but the crudest filters. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-10-This well-written historical novel set in early 17th-century France offers an unusual perspective on a perenially popular, often sensationalized subject. Rose Rives, 15, and her mother are shocked by the sudden accidental death of Rose’s father, but their tragedy has just begun. Madame Rives, a midwife and healer, is accused of being a witch and, along with several other village women, is tortured until she both confesses and names other supposed “witches.” Rose is also accused, but manages to escape capture with the help of friends. The story is fast paced and suspenseful, with briskly drawn but convincing characters. Matas suggests the real reasons why females may have been accused of witchcraft: professional jealousy on the part of male medical practitioners; greed for land or wealth (which was forfeited to the church); resentment of strong, independent women; and the settling of long-standing grudges between neighbors or family members. The scene in which Rose’s mother is tortured is graphic and compelling, allowing readers to understand just how the accused might have been forced to give false testimony. Rose’s difficult choices are well drawn, and there is real drama as the plot quickly draws to a close. While the events depicted are generally grim, some hope is offered in a brief epilogue that helps to lighten the overall tone without trivializing the topic or weakening the book’s impact. Matas’s ability to write gripping stories that bring the past alive is well displayed in this enlightening and involving novel.
Lisa Dennis, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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