Name: A Northern Light
Rating: 3.5 (39 reviews)
ISBN: 9780358063681

Jennifer Donnelly

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

A Northern Light

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. (Printz Honor 2004).

A Northern Light.

Kathryn 

This was an interesting read for sure. I think it would have been better told completely chronological rather than back and forth. Still very interesting and inspiring story. Definitely more of a just historical fiction rather than the murder mystery the description kind of suggests.

Rhea Lanphere

I laughed, I cried and I learned so much about myself. This novel helped me realized why it is I love reading and what kind of stories really hold my heart. I will never forget this and I can honestly say I look forward to reading this again.

Amelia McRoberts

Stephanie O'Sullivan

Christine Kraus

Karen Hinh

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Audrey Lord

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Emily Insinna

Miranda Madden

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.

A Northern Light

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