Light on Snow

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.

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 10/12/2004
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780316000710
Large Print

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86144 / Light on Snow

Award: Iowa High School Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 November 2004 11/01/2004 pg. 1

About the Author
Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of more than fifteen novels, including Testimony; The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange prize. She lives in Massachusetts.