Bunce, Elizabeth C.

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

Adaptation of the folk tale Rumpelstiltskin.

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: 0545200423 (pbk.) 9780545200424 (pbk.) 0439895774 (pbk.) 9780439895774 (pbk.)

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

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Ghost stories.
Young adult fiction.