title: Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
author:  Rosalyn Schanzer 
description: Rosalyn Schanzer is the award-winning author andillustrator of 16 books for young people, including <i>How We Crossed the West</i> which garnered starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, and <i>George versus George: The American Revolution as Seen From Both Sides</i>, an ALA Notable Book, SLJ Book of the Year, NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, and Orbis Pictus Recommended book. She was recently awarded the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for her work on <i>Witches</i>. Roz lives in Virginia with her husband, Steve, in a house surrounded by birds.
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  Witches and Wolves
  
  
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  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  The silver glint of a truck underbelly in the ditch caught Jayda Swenson’s eye
  as she rounded the corner on Moon pass. Smoke and the lick of flame billowed
  from beneath the truck’s bed, wafting up and over the asphalt as she stopped
  her Jeep and grabbed blue medical gloves from the center console. So much for
  easing back into work after vacation. She was literally on her way to start
  her paramedic shift, but work seemed to find her first.
  
  
  A trail of black and red flannel spilled from the driver’s side window; a pale
  arm sticking out, the hand splayed and bloody. Jayda’s brain roared with
  adrenaline as she took a few steps down the embankment but stopped with a
  start. The truck was on fire. She couldn’t rush in there and try and save the
  victim alone. If she got injured, she’d be of no use to the victim and just
  more work for help when it arrived.
  
  
  Everything inside