First Light, Rebecca Stead
First Light, Rebecca Stead
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First Light

Author: Rebecca Stead

Narrator: David Ackroyd, Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/13/2010

Synopsis

PETER IS THRILLED to leave New York City to accompany his parents on an expedition to Greenland to study global warming. There he has visions of things that should be too far away for him to see.

Generations ago, the people of Thea’s community were hunted for possessing unusual abilities, so they fled beneath the ice. Thea needs help that only Peter can give. Their meeting reveals secrets of both their pasts, and changes the future for them both forever.

About The Author

REBECCA STEAD is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction, and Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists. She also wrote Goodbye Stranger, which was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. Her latest book, The List of Things that Will Not Change, has received eight starred reviews. She lives in New York City with her family. Visit her online at rebeccasteadbooks.com and on Twitter @rebstead.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

I first heard about Rebecca Stead from Ann Cannon at the King's English. She urged me to read WHEN YOU REACH ME, which had been one of her favorite books that year. She said it reminded her of the kind of book she used to read when she was a kid, that it was like reading A WRINKLE IN TIME for the fi......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

First Light was written by Rebecca Stead who has written many more amazing books. This book mostly takes place in Greenland and New York. The two main characters are Peter and Thea who know nothing about each other and who live in different parts of the world, but nearing the end you’ll realize that......more

Goodreads review by Frankie

I think this book is fine. As I read, I kept comparing it to Steads other works (when you reach me and liar and spy) which are two of my favorite books, and first light just didn’t hold a candle to those. I think the particular weakness of first light is that the kids are just not very likable? Thea......more

Quotes

“Peter and Thea are vividly realized. . . . Gracehope itself is sketched with sure strokes, its icy setting and its matriarchal social structure fresh and believable.”—The Horn Book Magazine

“Stead’s debut novel rests on an intriguing premise. . . . It is a testament to the storytelling that the existence of this parallel world and the convergence of Peter and Thea’s stories, told in separate chapters, are both credible and absorbing. Young readers will find this a journey worth taking.”—Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • Bank Street Child Study Children's Book Award
  • Florida Sunshine State Book Award
  • IRA Children's Book Award for Younger Readers
  • Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award
  • Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award
  • Parents' Choice Award
  • Rhode Island Children's Book Award
  • Virginia Young Readers Program Award
  • Washington Sasquatch Reading Program Master List
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