{"id":1540,"date":"2012-11-19T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:09:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:09:18","slug":"a-northern-light-by-jennifer-donnelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, and based on the actual murder of a woman named Grace Brown, this book will appeal to fans of both historical fiction and murder mysteries.\u00a0 Chapters alternate between the past and the present, as narrated by sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey.\u00a0 In the chapters about the past, we learn about Mattie\u2019s life on her family\u2019s farm and her hope to attend Barnard College in New York City to become a writer.\u00a0 In the chapters about her present, we learn about Mattie\u2019s work at The Glenmore Hotel on Big Moose Lake and how it brought her into contact with Grace Brown shortly before she was murdered.<\/p>\n

I think what I liked best about this story is that it was about so much more than Grace Brown\u2019s murder.\u00a0 It was also a coming-of-age story about a young woman (Mattie) who was determined to blaze her own path and to fight for her dreams despite the wishes of her father and the lack of women\u2019s rights at the time.\u00a0 With how seamlessly Jennifer Donnelly wove together the true story of Grace Brown and the fictional story of Mattie Gokey, it\u2019s no wonder this book won the 2003 Carnegie Medal in Literature [under the UK title A Gathering Light].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, and based on the actual murder of a woman named Grace Brown, this book will appeal to fans of both historical fiction and murder mysteries.\u00a0 Chapters alternate between the past and the present, as narrated by sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey.\u00a0 In the chapters about the past, we learn about … Continue reading A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}