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Newes from the Dead

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By Mary Hooper
Publisher Square Fish
Newes from the Dead
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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 18yearold 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.

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66795 words66,795 words
272 pages272 pages
Lexile 1110LLexile 1110L
Grade 9 to H+Grade 9 to H+
Age 14-18Age 14-18

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9780312608644

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