From a 13-year old ninja to young Salem "witches"—a guided tour through the lives of outlaw children from history, their dastardly crimes, and awful punishments So you"ve broken a classroom window and you"re standing outside the principal"s office with sweaty palms and a serious sinking feeling in your stomach. Do you think no one"s ever had a life as bad as you? Well, you"re wrong—this book reveals how kids in the past have had to suffer much worse punishments than a lecture about how they"ve let the whole school down. For instance, however angry your principal gets, it"s fairly certain that she"s not going to put you in a pillory and nail your ears to it. All through history, children have been getting into some serious scrapes, and they didn"t often get off lightly. This is a guided tour to children for whom laughing, dancing on a Sunday, killing a rabbit that wasn"t on your land, or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time could mean a beating, beheading, or ordeal by hot water (no, it"s not a nice warm bath with bubbles and a little plastic duck).