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ISBN 10: 0152053956ISBN 13: 9780152053956
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Published by HMH Books for Young Readers, 2004
ISBN 10: 0152053956ISBN 13: 9780152053956
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ISBN 10: 0152053956ISBN 13: 9780152053956
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 396 pages. Ex-library. Cover wornCarnegie Medal Winner, Unite d Kingdom Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner One of TIME Magazin e's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Wee kly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union. Sixte en-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glen more, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned bod y is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters coul d reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An Ameri can Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortle ssly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original. Includes a reader's guid e and an interview with the author. Editorial Reviews Review St arred Review This is a breathtaking tale, complex and often earth y . Donnelly's characters ring true to life, and the meticulous ly detailed setting forms a vivid backdrop to this finely crafted story. --School Library Journal Starred Review . (an) ambitio us, beautifully written coming-of-age story . Many teens will c onnect with Mattie's fierce yearning for independence and for sto ries, like her own, that are frank, messy, complicated and inspir ing. --Booklist A Northern Light is a quintessential coming-of-a ge story . exceptionally well told. Honest and unflinching in i ts portrayal of loss, poverty, racism, and pregnancy, it nonethel ess avoids melodrama and polemic. --Christian Science Monitor Ab out the Author JENNIFER DONNELLY is the author of a novel for adu lt readers, The Tea Rose, and a picture book, Humble Pie. For A N orthern Light, her first teen novel, she drew on stories she hear d from her grandmother while growing up in upstate New York. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permiss ion. All rights reserved. When summer comes to the North Woods, t ime slows down. And some days it stops altogether. The sky, gray and lowering for much of the year, becomes an ocean of blue, so v ast and brilliant you can't help but stop what you're doing-pinni ng wet sheets to the line maybe, or shucking a bushel of corn on the back steps-to stare up at it. Locusts whir in the birches, co axing you out of the sun and under the boughs, and the heat still s the air, heavy and sweet with the scent of balsam. As I stand here on the porch of the Glenmore, the finest hotel on all of Big Moose Lake, I tell myself that today-Thursday, July 12, 1906-is such a day. Time has stopped, and the beauty and calm of this per fect afternoon will never end. The guests up from New York, all i n their summer whites, will play croquet on the lawn forever. Old Mrs. Ellis will stay on the porch until the end of time, rapping her cane on the railing for more lemonade. The children of docto rs and lawyers from Utica, Rome, and Syracuse will always run thr ough the woods, laughing and shrieking, giddy from too much ice c ream. I believe these things. With all my heart. For I am good a t telling myself lies. Until Ada Bouchard comes out of the doorw ay and slips her hand into mine. And Mrs. Morrison, the manager's wife, walks right by us, pausing at the top of the steps. At any other time, she'd scorch our ears for standing idle; now she doe sn't seem to even know we're here. Her arms cross over her chest. Her eyes, gray and troubled, fasten on the dock. And the steamer tied alongside it. That's the Zilpha, ain't it, Mattie? Ada whi spers. They've been dragging the lake, ain't they? I squeeze her hand. I don't think so. I think they were just looking along the shoreline. Cook says they probably got lost,
Published by HMH Books for Young Readers, 2004
ISBN 10: 0152053956ISBN 13: 9780152053956
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