A Northern Light
- ISBN-10
- 0152167056
- ISBN-13
- 9780152167059
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 389
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Jennifer Donnelly
Description
Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy, " this coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, real, and wholly original.
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