A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has a word for everything, and big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to marry her. And the secret dreams that keep her going--visions of finishing high school, going to college in New York City, becoming a writer.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 Big Moose Lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, this Printz Honor-winning coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.

Jennifer Donnelly is an award-winning author of both adult and young adult books, including Deep Blue, the first book in the Waterfire Saga. For adults she has written a trilogy of best-selling books that includes The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose. Her first young adult novel, A Northern Light, received many accolades, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Carnegie Medal in the UK, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. Her second young adult novel, Revolution, was named a Best Book of 2010 by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, and the audiobook received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley. For more information, visit www.jenniferdonnelly.com.

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ISBN 13	9780152167059
ISBN 10	0152167056
Title	A Northern Light
Author	Jennifer Donnelly
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harcourt Children's Books
Year published	2003-04-01
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of Carnegie Medal (Children's) 2003, Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Young Adult Fiction) 2003, Winner of Charlotte Award (Young Adult) 2006, Commended for Michael L. Printz Award (Young Adult) 2004, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2004, Commended for Jefferson Cup (Young Adults) 2004, Short-listed for Young Reader's Choice Award (Senior/Grades 10-12) 2006, Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2006, Short-listed for Iowa High School Book Award 2005, Short-listed for Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers 2005
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