A Northern Light
We will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at noon in the reading room in the media center. Bring your own lunch and a drink, and dessert will be provided. This month our selection is a 2004 Printz Award honor book, A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. (The Michael L. Printz Award goes to a book or books that exemplify literary excellence in young adult literature.) Copies of the book are available from Dr. Mandyck in the Media Center at a cost of $6.10, cash or check, please.
From the publisher:
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.