Light on Snow -- Anita Shreve

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 <i>Light on Snow</i> a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Anita Shreve<br><b>Publisher:</b> Back Bay Books<br><b>Published:</b> 09/01/2005<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.67lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.22h x 6.60w x 0.88d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780316010672<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 4.5<br><b>Point Value:</b> 10<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>86144 / Light on Snow<br><br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Ingram Advance</i> 09/01/2005 pg. 29<br><i>Kliatt</i> 11/01/2005 pg. 18<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Anita Shreve</b> is the acclaimed author of more than fifteen novels, including <i>Testimony; The Pilot's Wife</i>, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and <i>The Weight of Water</i>, which was a finalist for England's Orange prize. She lives