Bunce, Elizabeth C.

A curse dark as gold / Elizabeth C. Bunce. - New York, NY : Scholastic, 2009, c2008. - iii, 395 p. ; 21 cm.

Adaptation of the folk tale Rumpelstiltskin. "This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Cover verso. Originally published: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008.

Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.

ISBN: 0439895774 (tr. pbk.) 9780439895774 (tr. pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mills and mill-work--Fiction.
Blessing and cursing--Fiction.
Uncles--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Ghosts--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.B91505 / Cur 2009

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]