First Light
| Title | First Light |
| Year for Search | 2007 |
| Authors | Stead, Rebecca(b. 1968) |
| Date Published | 2007 |
| Publisher | Wendy Lamb Books |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Young adult flawed utopia. Gracehope is a community next to a lake in the ice under Greenland that had been established by people suspected of witchcraft and driven nearly to extinction. A eutopian society based on peace and cooperation was created, but it has grown to where it must limit births, and conservatives resist expansion, which would require a trip to the surface proposed by a young woman. |
| Author Note | Female author (b. 1968). |
| Full Text | 2007 Stead, Rebecca (b. 1968). First Light. New York: Wendy Lamb Books. Young adult flawed utopia. Gracehope is a community next to a lake in the ice under Greenland that had been established by people suspected of witchcraft and driven nearly to extinction. A eutopian society based on peace and cooperation was created, but it has grown to where it must limit births, and conservatives resist expansion, which would require a trip to the surface proposed by a young woman. Female author. |
