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A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly
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9780152053109 Trade Paperback
0152053107
$8.95
408pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2003
Territory:
US, C, O
Ages: 14 years and up |
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Reading Guide
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Synopsis |
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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.
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Praise |
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"Jennifer Donnelly has populated her first young-adult novel with a community of distinctive characters who ring rich and true."
New York Times Book Review,9/21/2003
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"Jennifer Donnelly has populated her first young-adult novel with a community of distinctive characters who ring rich and true, and grounded it in the often horrific realities of rural life a century ago. We don't just root for Mattie; we come to understand and cherish her."--The New York Times Book Review (September 21, 2003)
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Biography |
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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.
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Awards |
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| Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book |
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General Subjects |
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Juvenile Fiction- Historical/United States/20th Century
Juvenile Fiction- Girls & Women
Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Adolescence
Juvenile Fiction- Mysteries & Detective Stories
Juvenile Fiction- General
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Curriculum Themes |
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| Books, Reading, and the Library |
| Coming of Age |
| Historical Fiction |
| Images of Strong Women |
| Love & Romance |
| Mysteries & Detective Stories |
Social Situations- Growing Up
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Rights Details |
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Harcourt Paperbacksis an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books
A Division ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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