diff --git a/lib/htmlparser-to-vdom.js b/lib/htmlparser-to-vdom.js
index 9993453..514a23c 100644
--- a/lib/htmlparser-to-vdom.js
+++ b/lib/htmlparser-to-vdom.js
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ module.exports = function createConverter (VNode, VText) {
             if (node.type === 'tag' || node.type === 'script' || node.type === 'style') {
                 return converter.convertTag(node, getVNodeKey);
             } else if (node.type === 'text') {
+                if (node.parent && node.parent.type === 'script') {
+                    return new VText(node.data);
+                }
                 return new VText(decode(node.data));
             } else {
                 // converting an unsupported node, return an empty text node instead.
diff --git a/test/html-to-vdom/lib/html-to-vdom/index.js b/test/html-to-vdom/lib/html-to-vdom/index.js
index 2a09fba..d73aaa5 100644
--- a/test/html-to-vdom/lib/html-to-vdom/index.js
+++ b/test/html-to-vdom/lib/html-to-vdom/index.js
@@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ describe('html-to-vdom', function () {
             script.children.length.should.eql(1);
             script.children[0].text.should.eql('alert("bar!");');
         });
+        it('converts script tag which contains html entity string', function() {
+            var html = '<div><script>var s = "&quot;";</script></div>';
+            var converted = convertHTML(html);
+            var script = converted.children[0];
+            should.exist(script);
+            script.tagName.should.eql('script');
+            script.children.length.should.eql(1);
+            script.children[0].text.should.eql('var s = "&quot;";');
+        })
     });
 
     describe('when converting HTML containing a style tag', function () {