A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce. 400 p. Arthur A. Levine Books/ Scholastic Inc., March, 2008. 9780439895767. (Own.)
Happy Thursday! #tbt features A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce. This book was Ms. Bunce's debut and was published in 2008. It won the inaugural William C. Morris YA Debut Award. It was also added to the Amelia Bloomer YA List and was named a Best Book for Young Adults.
This leisurely paced, stylistically complex novel will appeal to thoughtful teen readers who enjoy fairy tale retellings. Seventeen-year-old Charlotte and her sister Rosie inherit their father's mill in England in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It is rumored that the mill is cursed, but Charlotte puts no stock in curses until she and her sister stand to lose the farm. Her uncle seems to want to help, but he also wants to marry Charlotte off. Then, a strange man named Jack Spinner shows up with the ability to spin straw into gold—for a price.
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