Most of Mattie Lyon’s hopes and dreams are using on her summer job at the Glennmore Resort. She’ll make more than enough money to go to college in the fall. She’ll prove to her dad that she actually is accountable. She’ll learn how to survive in the advanced globe beyond her dad’s brokeback plantation. But all her programs fall to items when a young woman arises drowned in the lake. Only Mattie understands that her death is normally a murder.

An astonishing and heartbreaking tale occur 1906, this novel will need its place beside To Eliminate a Mockingbird, Small Women, and additional classics that hark back to times of misplaced innocence.

A North Light is Jennifer Donnelly’s first published young adult novel, and it marks the debut of a major new talent.