First Light

One book that is hard to put down!

Stead hit a home run in my humble opinion by mixing a science fiction type of thread with an issue that many kids are really concerned about - global warming. The characters are multidimensional and believable. It is not a predictable story line which kept me engaged. The middle school students that I have shared First Light with have all really liked the story a lot.

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Great book...it was pretty awesome!!!

This was definitly on of the bedt books that I've ever read...science and secrets..."whats the worst that could happen"?

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Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com

Peter Solemn will be leaving his life behind as he accompanies his family to Greenland. His father is a glaciologist and is going to research the ice caps and the effects of global warming.

Thea already lives in Greenland - although not freely. The people in the society she lives with, Gracehope, all fled Europe because of persecution, hiding underneath the ice, unable to go above to see what this new world has to offer.

Curious as she is, Thea has always wondered what it's like above all of the ice. Even though her grandma, who just so happens to be the leader of the society, does not allow it, Thea is going to do all she can to see what exactly is happening on top of her world.

With the help of a map, Peter and Thea discover one another. Two people from two completely different worlds...and yet somehow both are connected to each other.

Without wanting to give away too much, Peter and Thea's world collide, sometimes for the best, most of the times for the worse.

Odd and captivating, FIRST LIGHT is one of those books that you just have to read in order to understand the brilliance and imagination. Another plus is the mentioning of global warming, which some may believe in while others do not. However, regardless of beliefs, FIRST LIGHT is one novel you want to experience.

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Great Characters and Settings

My son and I read this book over the summer with some of his friends in a kid's book club. All the boys in the club really enjoyed the book. It was a great read for both parents and kids.

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Amazing Just Plain Amazing

This book is a good and exciting book for the whole family I'm a kid who loves to read and I just found this book in the libary at school and thought i might check it out and it turns out i just plain love this book is so good

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I have read this book 3 years ago..... checked it out from the library

Pretty good!!!!!!!!

Hello, I really liked the book! THANK YOU 4 READING My review

Good book

Lots of typos

Awesome!

I would reccomend this to sixth or seventh graders because some of the words are hard to understand. FYI I am a 6th grader.

-LovePink86

Hi im Rebbeca Stead

If you want to talk to me let me know i enjoy the fans!

Frist light

This is a good book. And if you like this book you might like Rabecca Steads other book when you reach me. That book is good too.

Stead,Rebecca

This is a great book so far. I also think you should read "When you Reach me."

Holly wow

Great love it could not live with out her writing i love it soo much





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I love it!

This book is very hard 2 put down! I love it soooooooo much! Buy it!

One of the most amazing books ever!!!

I'm not mujch of a reader, so I thought I wouldn't enjoy an over 300 page book! I proved myself wrong, when I picked up this book and started reading it. First Light is a MUST READ!!!

amazinggggg

a awesome story how 2 worlds colide makes you belive it could really happen!!!

I LOVE REBBECA STEAD!!!!

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A nice bit of science fiction based on flawed "scientific" facts.

The concept of a group of people with special characteristics living under the ice of Greenland is unique. The idea of the melting ice pack as a result of global warming is fictional at best and is just another way to put the wrong ideas into a child's head by indocrinating him or her with this flawed and dishonest theory. I give the story five stars and the global warming nonsense one star. Parents should warn the children that is, indeed, fiction. It is not suitable for any child under the age of 12.

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"First Light" Book Review

I thought that this book was amazing! It was extremly suspenceful and I couldn't put it down! I loved the discriptive words and all of the personification and similies! Although fictional, this book seems like it could be real, the way Rebecca Stead describes the modern time period and the "real" characters. I would recomend this book to anyone 10+! This book has two main characters, a boy named Peter, and a girl named Thea. Peter is from modern times New York and is going with his parents on an expidition to Greenland. While Thea lives in a secert world under the ice called Gracehope. This book is about how their two very different worlds collide with an interesting, new twist! This is the best book that I have ever read and I'm looking forward to reading all of Rebecca Staed's other books too! I had already read her book called, "When You Reach Me", and I would also recommend that book as well! I have loved all of her books and thought that they were awesome!!!!

The eye adept Peter

First Light
By: Rebecca Stead
Yearling Publications
Ages 10-12
Copyright 2007

Thea could've found out of her icy home in a glacier. As Thea and her cousin Mattias search for the passageway out of Gracehope they actually find it. When Thea reaches the surface she saw a boy, and with him a dog. Thea had dreamt of the surface her whole life and now someone was here to hunt her down. At least that's what she thought. A boy with golden hair was the one with the dog. She never knew hair could be different colors. As Thea realizes later she has a connection with the boy.

When Peter goes searching for the Second Volkswagen Road in Greenland he finds something in the ice. The thing that was sucking the life of his mother. Mitochondrial DNA. His mother is a biologist studying
DNA. Now as his mother starts drawing in her notebook he sees a drawing of mtDNA. He knew his mother was seeing the bracelet somehow. As Peter looks for a sound he hears he finds a tunnel and in the tunnel a person. The girl had pale white skin and long brown hair. He never knew he could find someone in the middle of Greenland

In this suspenseful story fantasy intertwines with reality. As the clues reveal all of your mind-boggling question you wonder how the story will end. With many conflicts happening between several people the story makes you have to turn each page and keep it in your face. First Light showed a positive light on following your heart and never giving up.

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