Children's Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories
The Source of Light
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Category
- Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Recommended Grade
- 10 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897235935
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
The Source of Light profiles two seventeen-year-olds as they put on their detective mindsets and physical disguises to seek answers to serious questions such as Mike's mother's infidelity and Mike's father's involvement in industrial espionage. Set against the backdrop of a synchrotron, a football field-sized facility that uses light millions of times brighter than the sun to peer inside matter, the teen detectives soon begin to connect the world's most powerful microscope to nefarious black market schemes.
About the author
David Adams Richards is a resident of Fredericton and is one of only three Canadian writers who have won Governor General's Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction. His novel Mercy Among the Children won the 2000 Giller Prize, while his most recent novel, Incidents in the Life of Marcus Paul, won the 2012 Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
Librarian Reviews
The Source of Light
Badger and Mike, two 17-year-olds, seek answers to serious questions about Mike’s mom’s infidelity and his dad’s involvement in industrial espionage. Against a backdrop of the synchrotron, the world’s most powerful microscope, the boys and their friend Angie begin an operation that will change the lives of everyone they know.Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Best Books for Kids & Teens. Fall, 2012.
