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Charlotte Miller battles a family curse on her wool mill through magical bargains and romance in this Rumpelstiltskin retelling.
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Charlotte Miller battles a family curse on her wool mill through magical bargains and romance in this Rumpelstiltskin retelling.
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This ravishing winner of the ALA's William C. Morris YA Debut Award is a fairy tale, spun with a mystery, woven with a family story, and shot through with romance. 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 t...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Romantic relationship with local banker develops alongside magical bargains; no explicit scenes
Violence & gore
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Mild threats and peril tied to curse and mill conflicts; few mild instances
Profanity
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Few mild instances of profanity
Substance use
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No substance use depicted