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Melusina

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 10

Author

Joan
Aiken

Appeared in

The Winter Sleepwalker

Story Summary

Young Melusina is cursed through no fault of her own to turn into a pink snake every Sunday. Years later the Queen who put the curse on Melusina sees a giant pink snake on a lonely stretch of beach. Amends are made, Melusina marries the prince and everyone lives happily ever after.