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Children's Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories

The Source of Light

by (author) David Richards

Publisher
Thistledown Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2011
Category
Mysteries & Detective Stories
Recommended Grade
10 to 12
  • 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.

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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.

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