num_pages: 402
description: Its senior year at St. Joans Academy and school is a pressure cooker. College applications the battle for valedictorian deciphering boys texts: Through it all Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they cant. First its the schools queen bee Clara Rutherford who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends then more students and symptoms follow: seizures hair loss violent coughing fits. St. Joans buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. Soon the media descends on Danvers Massachusetts as everyone scrambles to find something or someone to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleenwhos been reading The Crucible for extra creditcomes to realize what nobody else has. Inspired by true eventsfrom seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school this is the mystery that raises the question whats really happening to the girls at St. Joans?
language: English
title: Conversion
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers