This book was important for me as a young girl, reading it for the first time when I was about to enter my teens. It follows Mary, a 14 year old girl orphaned and sent to the New World with a group of puritan settlers after her lat living relative, her grand mother, is hanged accused of witch craft. Mary tries her best to fit in with this extremely religious group and keep a low profile, but it does not go a long time before rumors are spread about her.

A great read for people interested in the witch hysteria, the early European settlers of America or just relates to the feeling of not fitting in to the societies expectations at all times :)