The Crimson Thread by Suzanne Weyn (author)

It is 1880. Bertie has recently immigrated to New York from Ireland. Struggling to make ends meet and care for her younger siblings, Bertie finds work as a seamstress for textile tycoon, J.P. Wellington.

When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie’s father boasts that she can save the business. She can “practically spin straw into gold”.

Amazingly, overnight Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns – but only with the help of a mysterious man who uses an old spinning wheel. With dazzling crimson thread, he makes the dresses look like they are laced with real gold.

Bertie would do anything to pay this man back for his help. When he asks for her firstborn child, Bertie agrees, never dreaming that he is serious…

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407131962

Date published

July 5th, 2012

Lexile measure

800L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.6; Upper years; 7.0 points

Other details

288 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Suzanne Weyn

Suzanne Weyn grew up in Williston Park, Long Island, New York. She has three sisters and a brother. As a girl she was very interested in theater and in reading. Louisa May Alcott was her favorite author. Suzanne lived pretty close to the ocean and going to Jones Beach was one of favorite activities. Even today, if she goes too long without seeing the ocean, she starts feeling restless.

Suzanne now lives in upstate New York with her husband and two daughters. Her house is at the edge of the woods and is nearly 200 years old.

Suzanne’s most recent novels include The Bar Code Tattoo (2004) and The Bar Code Rebellion (2006). They are set in the near future based on the premise that everyone is branded with a bar code. The Bar Code Tattoo was selected by the American Library Association as a Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for “Best Young Adult Fiction”. It is currently translated into German and was nominated for the 2007 Jugenliteraturpreis for Young People’s Literature. The Bar Code Rebellion continues the story, taking it into new areas, including cloning and nanotechnology. Suzanne’s other books for young adults include The Night Dance, Water Song and The Crimson Thread.

Her most recent title is the mystical historic romance, Reincarnation, from Scholastic Press. Suzanne says, “This was an idea that had been in my mind for quite a few years. I’d noticed that there is so much about people that just doesn’t make sense a lot of the time. Why does a person have a passion for a certain subject or period of history? So much falls into place if there is a former life lying just below a person’s conscious memory.

“It really doesn’t matter if a reader believes in reincarnation in order to enjoy the story. I hope readers will be able to put any doubts they might have aside and throw themselves into the narrative. It’s about reincarnation but also so much more.”