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The Crimson Thread

by Suzanne Weyn
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Another addition to the compulsively readable Once Upon a Time series, a whimsical retelling of the beloved Grimms tale Rumpelstiltskin.
The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with her family, is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J.P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save the business, that she is so skillful she can "practically spin straw into gold."

Amazingly, in the course of one night, Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns—with the help of Ray Stalls, a man from her tenement who uses an old spinning wheel to create dresses that are woven with crimson thread and look as though they are spun with real gold. Indebted to Ray, Bertie asks how she can repay him. When Ray asks for her firstborn child, Bertie agrees, never dreaming that he is serious...
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Series: Once upon a Time Publisher: Simon Pulse

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781442407404
  • Release date: October 27, 2009

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781442407404
  • File size: 2271 KB
  • Release date: October 27, 2009

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Folklore Young Adult Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.6
Lexile® Measure:800
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:3-4

Another addition to the compulsively readable Once Upon a Time series, a whimsical retelling of the beloved Grimms tale Rumpelstiltskin.
The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with her family, is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J.P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save the business, that she is so skillful she can "practically spin straw into gold."

Amazingly, in the course of one night, Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns—with the help of Ray Stalls, a man from her tenement who uses an old spinning wheel to create dresses that are woven with crimson thread and look as though they are spun with real gold. Indebted to Ray, Bertie asks how she can repay him. When Ray asks for her firstborn child, Bertie agrees, never dreaming that he is serious...
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Folklore Young Adult Fiction