A Northern Light

A Northern LightNow with a fresh new look and introduction, comes Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing, Printz Honor winning debut the story of a young woman's coming of age and the murder that rocked turn of the century America. A Printz Award Honor Book "A contemporary classic. Jennifer Donnelly is the master of historical fiction " Ruta Sepetys, New York Times best selling author and winner of the Carnegie Medal Sixteen year old Mattie Gokey has a word for everything,

Now with a fresh new look and introduction, comes Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing, Printz Honor-winning debut--the story of a young woman's coming-of-age and the murder that rocked turn-of-the-century America.​​

A Printz Award Honor Book

"A contemporary classic. Jennifer Donnelly is the master of historical fiction " ­--Ruta Sepetys, New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Carnegie Medal

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has a word for everything, and big dreams of being a writer but little hope of seeing them come true. With the fresh pain of her mother's death lingering over her and the only out from her impoverished life being marriage to the handsome but dull local rich boy, Maddie flees from her home. 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 05/07/2019
ISBN: 9780358063681
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.20d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 67223 / Northern Light
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13