A Northern Light
Jan 2013 · HarperCollins
4.2star
21 reviews
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About this ebook
The Printz Honor–winning YA novel: “A contemporary classic” of a girl's coming-of-age and the real-life murder that rocked early twentieth-century America (New York Times–bestselling author Ruta Sepetys).
Growing up in the Adirondack Mountains, sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey dreams of becoming a writer. Still grieving her mother’s death, and pressured to marry a wealthy but dull local boy, she decides to flee her home and take a job at the elegant Glenmore Hotel.
Mattie is thrilled to enter a new world of wealth and sophistication. But she is caught off guard when a guest named Grace Brown asks her to burn a secret bundle of letters. And 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 against 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 a moving and wholly original.
Growing up in the Adirondack Mountains, sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey dreams of becoming a writer. Still grieving her mother’s death, and pressured to marry a wealthy but dull local boy, she decides to flee her home and take a job at the elegant Glenmore Hotel.
Mattie is thrilled to enter a new world of wealth and sophistication. But she is caught off guard when a guest named Grace Brown asks her to burn a secret bundle of letters. And 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 against 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 a moving and wholly original.
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4.2
21 reviews
Kenneth Turner
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February 15, 2017
Love it. Read it last year and reading it this year. Donnelly does an amazing job at combining a murder mystery with romance and the ambitious dreams of a small town county girl. Also, can expand your vocabulary with Mattie Gokey's "word of the day"
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Tyshira Murphy
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August 8, 2013
A Northern Light is a great read! At first it's like reading about a boring life of a teenage girl but after all the boring stuff comes the Mystery, Romance, and more! You won't regret buying this book! Hope you enjoy!
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Jessica Coombe
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February 7, 2015
This was my favorite book in middle school. It still is 10 years later.
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About the author
Jennifer Donnelly is the author of eleven novels including the Waterfire Saga, The Tea Rose series, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book, and A Northern Light. She grew up in New York State, in Lewis and Westchester counties, and attended the University of Rochester where she majored in English Literature and European History.
www.jenniferdonnelly.com
Twitter: @JenWritesBooks
www.jenniferdonnelly.com
Twitter: @JenWritesBooks
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