A Northern Light
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Book Description
It's 1906 and 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is at a crossroads in her life. She's escaped the overwhelming responsibilities of helping to run her father's brokedown farm in exchange for a paid summer job as a serving girl at a fancy hotel in the Adirondacks. She's saving as much of her salary as she can, but she's having trouble deciding how she's going to use the money at the end of the summer. Mattie... More
Book Information
Publisher | Graphia |
Binding | Paperback (25 editions) |
Reading Level | Young Adults |
# of Pages | 408 |
ISBN-10 | 0152053107 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0152053109 |
Publication Date | 09/01/2004 |
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1/25/2010 Mary Sandford said: I could not put this book down. Switching from the beginning of the story to near the end until the two times met really made the story compelling. I will be thinking about Mattie, Weaver, Emmie and Grace Brown for a long time.
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tags: I recommend
9/19/2009 Nicole Redmond said: One of my all-time favorites ~ the reason I started reading historical fiction. Thank you Ms. Donnelly. I didn't want this one to end. I have read her adult novels, and feel the same with every one of them. A must read for any young woman.
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
6/24/2008 Kelly Sonnack said: Wonderful characters - you get to know this family and this community so intimately that small things are said and done that have such huge emotional resonance, you barely know what to do with yourself.
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11/22/2007 Patti Kurtz said: Lovely book, very poetically written-- and the author's a cool lady too!
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read
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