A Northern Light
By Jennifer Donnelly
(Graphia, Paperback, 9780152053109, 408pp.)
Publication Date: September 2004
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Compact Disc, Prebound, Prebound
Categories: Historical - United States - 20th Century, Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories, Social Issues - Adolescence
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Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.
Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.
JENNIFER DONNELLY is the author of a novel for adult readers, The Tea Rose, and a picture book, Humble Pie. For A Northern Light, her first teen novel, she drew on stories she heard from her grandmother while growing up in upstate New York. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A 2011 ALA Popular Paperbacks Title
"Jennifer Donnelly has populated her first young-adult novel with a community of distinctive characters who ring rich and true."
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