Truth or Lies? Lidda knew, with a clarity that was like a candle in a dark room, that all had changed; something was loosed in the village151;Devil or not151;and they would pay for it, every last man, woman, and child. Fourteen-year-old Lidda has always known she was different. She longs to escape Salem Village and its stifling rules151;to be free to dance, to sing, to live as she chooses. But when a plague of accusations descends on the village and witch fever erupts, L idda begins to realize that she feels and sees things that others can"t, or won"t. But how will she expose the truth without being hung as a witch herself? Gripping and emotional, Ann Turner"s retelling of the Salem witch trials captures one girl"s brave soul-searching amidst a backdrop of fear and blame.