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Title	:	A Northern Light
Author	:	Jennifer Donnelly
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 396 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2004 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published April 1st 2003)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Mystery. Teen. Romance

A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly

Paperback | Pages: 396 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 36826 Users | 3496 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	A Northern Light
ISBN:	0152053107 (ISBN13: 9780152053109)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mattie Gokey, Grace Brown, Weaver Smith, Royal Loomis, Emily Wilcox, Beth Gokey, Lou Gokey, Abby Gokey, Michael Gokey, Tommy Hubbard
Setting:	Adirondack Mountains, New York(United States) New York State,1906(United States)
Literary Awards:	Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2003), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2003), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2004), Charlotte Award (2006), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2005) Lincoln Award Nominee (2009), Carnegie Medal (2003), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2006)

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The Hook - When I worked in the library I often recommended A Northern Light to older young adults or even adults looking for a good historical fiction book. Now mind you, librarians cannot read every book in a library but we pay attention to reviews, awards and patron comments. I had never read A Northern Light but could book talk it based on the above criteria and never heard any complaints. In fact most who had never read anything by Jennifer Donnelly picked up The Tea Rose or other of her

this monday-morning float is for you, alfonso!oh, a northern light, you were way better than i expected. i used to get really angry at this book, because it would come up in resort all the time and some people would just shelve it in my section because it looks like a grown-up book, not like teen fiction, and i would always have to be yanking it off the shelves and saying "nooooo, you go downstairs!!" like shooing away a mischievous dog. while i was reading it, i loved it.a few days after, i am

I chose to add this book to my TBR because it was on several lists as one of the Best Children's Books - it is actually an YA historical novel but nevertheless it was a compelling read. It's basically a interesting piece of fiction- about a girl growing up in the Adirondacks in the 1900s who envisions a better life for herself. She loves to read books and learns a new word from the dictionary everyday.This peaked my interest because #1 I LOVE books about books, and #2 I love reading books about

Disliked this book for three reasons:1. Mattie irritated me. She was supposed to be so smart but I thought she was stupid, I'd figured out the big 'mystery' by the second page but she was clueless until nearly the end.2. Weaver also annoyed me. I mean yes he was discriminated against and treated badly, blah blah, but I felt no pity for him because he so obviously pitied himself enough for both of us. His constant self-righteous rage made me want to smack him. 3. I thought the writer was

An excellent YA novel. It didn't make me bawl my eyes out however, therefore only 4 stars. Set in 1906, the book follows an important period in a 16-year old girl's life, when she faces the dilemma of what her future will be. Mattie is an aspiring writer and yearns to attend university, but her family responsibilities hinder her dreams. Will she choose to risk it all and try to find her own independence or will she succumb to her family's wishes and abandon her aspirations to instead become a

I rate one star not because "I didn't like it" but because there is a nauseating amount of this genre book in existence. The genre of a bookish, misunderstood girl who fights against the strictures of society so that she can be a liberated woman. The genre of book where the author tries to set the world straight on what a girl should do with her life and how she should be treated. The most galling is that the author writes the protagonist (Mattie) as disliking books with "happy endings" but then

A Northern Light is one of those books you come across every few years; the type of novel that buries itself in your heart from the first page and simply lingers in your thoughts for days, weeks, and even months afterward. Although I've probably read at least two books and three novellas since I set this story down, it has still been in the forefront of my thoughts. I will likely tell my parents to yell at Jennifer Donnelly if they want someone to blame for my bad grades and sleepless nights.