Publication Date: March 1st, 2008
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
ISBN: 0439895766
Age Group: Young adult
Genre: Fairy tale/adventure/fantasy
Source: Library
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Lootability: ***
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
