August 27, 1934, in New York City) is a young adult fiction author.

Rinaldi currently lives in Somerville, New Jersey, with her husb Ann Rinaldi (b. She also writes for the Dear America series. She is the most prolific writer for the Great Episode series, a series of historical fiction novels set during the American Colonial era. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one the best novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She has written a total of forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. She is best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Ann Rinaldi (b. 11-17) - Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. Bibliography excellent note sorting out fact and fiction. Fine historical fiction Rinaldi at her best. The device works well as Susanna tries to negotiate with Ann sees her parents accused despite her promise falls in love with Magistrate Hathorne's son and persuades him of the ``witches' '' innocence is taken in by Joseph Putnam, who is secretly encouraging opposition and finally shares her knowledge, only to have her certainty challenged by prophecies that, amazingly, come true: ``.the line is thin between what is fanciful and what is real.'' Rinaldi's characterizations aren't subtle, but she has done her research well and fashioned an enthralling, authentic story that makes the results of compounding malicious lies with false confessions of terrified victims tragically believable. So they seek to lay blame.'' Rinaldi chooses as narrator Susanna English, ancestor of Nathaniel Hawthorne, fictionalizing her role of a fascinated, horrified observer who's told, early on, by ringleader Ann Putnam that the girls are deliberately seeking attention and power Susanna keeps silent lest her own family be accused.

As a wise old woman says here, ``.the spirit it took to tame this wilderness is so strong it would not bow to the authority of the Puritan covenant.They see this.as a failure of their vision. Why, in 1692, did Salem execute 22 citizens accused by hysterical girls? Various causes-political, economic, scientific-have been advanced Rinaldi makes a plausible case for a combination of these with the repression of a society with few amusements, late marriages, and young adults treated as children.

A break with charity by ann rinaldi