Light on Snow
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Author:
Published:
Little, Brown and Company 2004
Format:
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Lexile measure:
750L
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.
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Street Date:
10/01/2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316145633, 9780759512771
ASIN:
B000FC2JK2
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 4.5, 10 Points
Level 4.5, 10 Points
Lexile measure:
750
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Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Anita Shreve. (2004). Light on Snow. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Anita Shreve. 2004. Light On Snow. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Anita Shreve, Light On Snow. Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
MLA Citation (style guide)Anita Shreve. Light On Snow. Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
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