Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Description: Outstanding young adult literature. This book is a fictional account of a real murder thatOutstanding young adult literature. This book is a fictional account of a real murder that happened in the early 1900's. Grace Brown, unwed and pregnant, gives all of the love letters she wrote to her lover to a young girl working at the resort that she is staying at, and asks her to burn them. Later that night, Grace's body is found in the lake, the man she was there with is nowhere to be found. The book's heroine is Mattie, the girl working at the resort, and while most of the book envelopes her life and her family, it is the death of Grace Brown that has a tremendous effect on her plans for her future....
2005-10-04
