A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials is a children's novel by Ann Rinaldi released in 1992, and is part of the Great Episodes series.

[1][2] The protagonist is a fictionalized version of a real resident of Salem, who was an ancestor of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[3] Susanna English, a teenage resident of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, desperately wants to join an inner circle of girls who meet every night at the Reverend's house.

The leader of the girls, Ann Putnam, tells Susanna that she plans to falsely accuse residents of their town of witchcraft.

Fourteen years later she returns to hear Ann Putnam apologize for all the innocent people imprisoned or hanged.