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Northern Light (School & Library Binding)

by Jennifer Donnelly (Author) "When summer comes to the North Woods, time slows down ..." (more)
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  • School & Library Binding
  • Publisher: Topeka Bindery (Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1417637188
  • ISBN-13: 978-1417637188
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (63 customer reviews)

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Independent April 5th 2003
‘an American writer of promise’ --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Please be aware that this is the US version of 'A Gathering
Light' by the same author
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL!!, 20 Aug 2004
This review is from: A Gathering Light (Paperback)
Upon reading the first few pages of this book, I thought it might be another one of those borderline books which doesn't really leave much of an impression. I was very wrong!
It is a story of a young girl who loves books and has a dream of one day being a writer. However Mattie Gokey must set these dreams aside to look after her sisters and her overworked father since her mother had died. Set in 1906, Matties story is fictional but is tied together beautifully with the story of a real girl who was murdered in the same year as the story is set.
The book flows in such a wonderful way and although the chapters alternate between seasons, it is not at all confusing and this actually adds to the emotional strength of the story.
A very heartfelt story, it is really easy to relate to the battle between Mattie's family, and the promise she made to her mother to look after them, and Matties's dreams, of finding her own feet in the world through her writing.
As Mattie reads Grace Browns letters,(the name of the murdered girl), their worlds seem to merge, they are so different yet strong connections between the two may change Mattie's life forever. This is a definite recommendation, a truly lovely story.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars George - Not Now!, 5 Jun 2004
By Mr N Newman (Thornbury, Bristol United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Gathering Light (Paperback)
One of the reviews on the cover of the paperback version suggests that if George Clooney were to appear while the reviewer was reading 'A Gathering Light' he would be told to come back later.

I'm male, 50+, and I don't fancy George, but I entirely support this comment. Not since 'Corelli' has prose reached me so movingly. And Mattie's dilemma between loyalty and limited horizons on one hand or growth and moving away on the other is beautifully told.

A few times my eyes were moist when I finished passages. I wanted it to go on!

Read this book - George will just have to wait!

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection, 10 Sep 2004
By Scribbler (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Gathering Light (Paperback)
It's the middle of the morning and I've just finished reading this book, having had a hundred other things to do. I honestly can't see how it could have been any better. Mattie is a wonderful heroine, so clever and honest and likeable, and the plot is so deftly woven around the murder mystery and lots of other mysteries too. You just have to keep reading to find out what happens. Will Mattie find the courage and selfishness to leave home, or will she marry handsome Royal Loomis instead? What will happen to her sisters and her father? What will become of her friend Weaver and his mother, her inspiring teacher, Miss Wilcox, and all the other beautifully drawn characters in this engrossing story? If I've made it sound trite, it's definitely not. Almost unbearably sad one minute and funny the next -
'Miss Wilcox once said that books are dangerous things, too. Maybe in the right hands. A book could only be dangerous in Clara Simms's hands if she hit someone over the head with it.'

The kind of book you're sad to finish, even as you race to the end.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful emotional exploration
I really enjoyed this book and was barely able to put it down!
It succeeds in being a very flowing and easy book to read, even the change in time and place were smooth... Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars A Gathering Light
I picked up this book to read by chance and having read the reviews I thought it was going to be good but was very disappointed. Read more
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This is a wonderful book,the kind of book you dont want to end. Everyone who I have recommended it to has loved it and enthusiastically recommended it to someone else. Read more
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A fantastic piece of writing that I enjoyed immensely. The blurb talks about it being based on a real murder at the turn of the century - this is at the start of the 1900s. Read more
Published 10 months ago by SJSmith

2.0 out of 5 stars Just average
I was disappointed by this book. I bought it because of the reviews on the cover (the George Clooney remark!), expecting it to be really good, but I found it just average. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars MASTERPIECE
This book is truly a masterpiece.

I found myself being dragged into the story with Mattie, feeling her hurt, experiencing her love, hope and disappointment. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Emma M

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll laugh, you'll cry, it'll change your life
At least that was what happened to me when I read this wonderful book. I picked it up at a bookstore at a 3 for 2 sale, and it lingered on my bookshelf for quite some time before... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Malin Engdahl

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and evocative page turner
Step back a hundred years to rural US and life as it was for those struggling to put food on their tables in the first decade of the twentieth century. Read more
Published 19 months ago by S. Barnes

4.0 out of 5 stars Will linger in the mind for months after closing the final page
This book is a little gem, thoroughly deserving the Carnegie Medal it won for its author, Jennifer Donnelly. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable
I read this book years ago so I can't quite remember it all but I know it was fantastic and I loved every minute of it. Read more
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