A Northern Light

A Northern Light

<b>Carnegie Medal Winner, United Kingdom<br />Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner </b><div><b>One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time <br />Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner <br />Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.</b><br /><br />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.<br /><br />Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's <i>An American Tragedy,</i> Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.<br /><br /><i>Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.</i> </div>