Stead, Rebecca
Entry updated 22 June 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1968- ) US author whose Young Adult novels of sf interest include First Light (2007), where a boy, visiting Greenland with his scientist father to measure global warming (see Climate Change) meets a young Culture Hero woman from an Underground Utopia who wants to lead her people back into the light; and When You Reach Me (2009), whose young protagonist begins to receive messages irradiating her familiar New York with accurate visions of the future. The young protagonist of The Experiment (2025) must deal with the discovery that he and his family are Aliens on Earth, and that this experiment is ending. [JC]
Rebecca Stead
born New York: 16 January 1968
works
- First Light (New York: Random House/Lamb, 2007) [hb/Ericka O'Rourke]
- When You Reach Me (New York: Random House/Lamb, 2009) [hb/Sophie Blackall]
- Liar and Spy (London: Andersen Press, 2012) [hb/Nigel Baines]
- The Lost Library (New York: Macmillan (Feiwel and Friends), 2023) with Wendy Mass [hb/W H Chong]
- The Experiment (New York: Macmillan (Feiwel and Friends), 2025) [hb/Devin Ellie Kurtz]
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