A Curse Dark As Gold

Author: ELIZABETH BUNCE

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  • : $25.00 AUD
  • : 9780439895767
  • : Arthur A. Levine Books
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  • : 0.544311
  • : 01 March 2008
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  • : 26.99
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  • : ELIZABETH BUNCE
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  • : HARDCOVER
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780439895767
9780439895767

Local Description

2008. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine, unlipped d/w. This copy is in as new condition.

Description

This ravishing winner of the ALA's William C. Morris YA Debut Award is a fairy tale, spun with a mystery, woven with a family story, and shot through with romance. Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family's woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father's death, the bad luck piles up: departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting proposition: He can turn straw into gold thread, for the small price of her mother's ring. As Charlotte is drawn deeper into her bargains with Spinner-and a romance with the local banker-she must unravel the truth of the curse on the mill and save the community she's always called home.