Growing up in the Adirondack Mountains, sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey dreams of becoming a writer. Still grieving her mother's death, and pressured to marry a wealthy but dull local boy, she decides to flee her home and take a job at the elegant Glenmore Hotel.
Mattie is thrilled to enter a new world of wealth and sophistication. But she is caught off guard when a guest named Grace Brown asks her to burn a secret bundle of letters. And when Grace's drowned body is fished from Big Moose Lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.
Set against the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, this Printz Honor-winning coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into a moving and wholly original.
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Release date
March 19, 2024 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780547542881
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780547542881
- File size: 2689 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4.5
- Lexile® Measure: 700
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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