A Northern Light

I read A Northern Light, written by Jennifer Donnelly. This book is about a girl named Mattie Gokey. All Mattie wants to do is raise money, grow up, and go to college. I chose this book because it looked good,and my friends talked about it.

On Matties adventure of raising money, working, hanging out with Royal, helping her family at home, and taking care of everything, something happens along her way. While she is trying to raise money, she sees that Grace Brown, the one who gave her letters to burn years before, is dead in a lake. Mattie, unable to burn the letters before, doesn't know if she should burn them, or look at them. With what she does, Mattie also descovers the trouth behind things she never thought about, Grace's murder, and the whole story behind it.

Two things I liked about the book was how fast you could read it, another is how good it was! And how much mystery it had to it. One thing I didn't like was how the end was, and how it left you hanging. Another is how it doesn't have a sequel. The appropriate age group is anywhere from 7th grade up! I would so reccomend this to a friend! I loved it! I think teenage girls would like this book because it is a mystery, and a love story all in one.