A Northern Light

Name: A Northern Light
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
ISBN: 9780807208977

Author: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrator: Hope Davis

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 03/25/2003

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, United States

Synopsis

All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the sophisticated world beyond her dad's brokeback farm. But all her plans fall to pieces when a young woman turns up drowned in the lake. Only Mattie knows that her death is a murder.

An astonishing and heartbreaking story set in 1906, this novel will take its place beside To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, and other classics that hark back to times of lost innocence.

A Northern Light is Jennifer Donnelly's first published young adult novel, and it marks the debut of a major new talent.

About The Author

Jennifer Donnelly is the author of three adult novels, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose, as well as the young adult novels These Shallow Graves, Revolution, Stepsister, Poisoned and A Northern Light, winner of Britain's prestigious Carnegie Medal, the L.A. Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award. She lives and writes full-time in upstate New York. You can visit her at jenniferdonnelly.com or find @JenWritesBooks on Twitter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on September 19, 2018

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 fi......more

Goodreads review by Tabetha on December 18, 2015

Rating: 4.5 Review: "Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every book in the Webster's Dictionary of the English language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get - a cold sick feeling deep down inside - when yo......more

Goodreads review by LENA on July 03, 2018

Sweet 16! (SPOILER) That book was a trip down memory lane. I had forgotten how it feels to be 16-17 and dream about the future. I remember myself growing up on a beautiful island with my family. I often seeked solitude and I always had a feeling I was supposed to live some place different. When I lef......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on July 13, 2017

"Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original." I'm "borrowing" the blurb for this story for one reason......more

Goodreads review by Keertana on June 11, 2013

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......more

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