{"product_id":"a-northern-light-1","title":"A Northern Light","description":"Carnegie Medal Winner, United Kingdom\nLos Angeles Times Book Prize Winner One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time\nBorders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner\nNamed a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.\n\nSixteen-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.\n\nSet 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.\n\nIncludes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0152053107\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0152053107.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Donnelly, Jennifer\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43337979691069,"sku":"BVV.0152053107.VG","price":5.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0152053107-0_7a510b55-f7a8-4b19-a97e-74107d1cd56d.jpg?v=1783902133","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/a-northern-light-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}