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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780439895767
ISBN: 0439895766
Label: Arthur A. Levine Books
Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: March 01, 2008
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 37479
Studio: Arthur A. Levine Books
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"If you'll allow me to demonstrate, I do think I could be of some help to you here."
I smiled tightly. "You'd have to be able to make gold appear from thin air to be much help to us now, I'm afraid."
"Gold, you say?" he said quietly. "Well, not out of the air, maybe, but--" He reached toward Rosie and drew a length of straw free from her hat. From out of a pocket in his jacket appeared an old-fashioned handheld drop spindle, the kind no one uses anymore, and he sent it spinning with a turn of his hand. Slowly, as we watched, he drew out the straw and spun it--spun it! (CONT.)
As if it were a roving of wool! Rosie and I stood there and watched him, moment by moment, as the spindle bobbed and twirled. Something pulled out from the brown straw and through his knobby fingers, and where it should have gone onto the spindle, the finest strands of gleaming gold threads appeared. Round and round the spindle went, and the gleaming of gold turned with it. I don't know how long we watched it, turning and turning, flashing gold with every revolution. I could not take my eyes away.
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Charlotte Miller and her sister Rosie have problems. Their father has just died, leaving their family mill in deep debt. Their long-lost uncle has arrived and is pushing them to sell. But their small community relies on the mill for its residents' livelihoods, and Charlotte isn't willing to give up her life and her friends' lives so easily. When Jack Spinner shows up and promises a way out, Charlotte makes a bargain with him to save the mill, but she gets far more than she bargained for and must ... Read More
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When Charlotte's father died leaving the wool mill and her younger sister Rosie to care for, Charlotte thought the world should be ending. As the elder and more practical and stubborn sister, Charlotte was used to running the finances for the wool mill that kept the tiny town of Stirwaters afloat. She was aware of the curse on Stirwaters that was tied inexplicably to the mill and her family but didn't really believe it until catastrophe after catastrophe began to assail her and Rosie.
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Retelling of Rumpelstilskin set in a recreation of late 1700's. Charlotte Miller's father dies and she inherits the Stilwater mill works (milling as in turning wool to cloth) with its debts, moldering machines, and curses. She must overcome all to save the people of Stilwater and her beloved mill as an evil competitor does his best to force her to close her doors and sell out to him. She does this with the help of a mysterious stranger who turns staw to gold, etc.
There isn't anything ... Read More
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The book I am reviewing A Curse Dark as Gold and it is written by Elizabeth C. Bunce.
A Curse Dark as Gold is a story of a family whose parents are dead, and they have to takeover the shearing business. Their father didn't tell them was. They have no mortgage! Then they found a man who can help them. They paid half the mortgage.
I liked this book because it held my attention and at points my eyes would not leave the page. And this book is appropriate for sixth and up.
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I've savored this one. I mean, I read a chunk every day, don't get me wrong. But if something happened to come up at night during my normal reading time, instead of muttering, "Vital point," like I usually do, I was up for it.
Watch a movie? Sure.
Clean out a few more boxes from the study? Let's do it!
Because I just didn't want this book to end. It more than lived up to the expectations I had, having heard such wonderful early reviews. And I was so pleased that ... Read More
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