{"id":613,"date":"2021-06-15T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/?page_id=613"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:02:46","slug":"first-light","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/first-light\/","title":{"rendered":"<em> First Light <\/em> by Rebecca Stead"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First Light<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tells the story of middle-grade Peter and Thea and their adventures in Greenland.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peter travels to Greenland with his mother and father, scientists studying mitochondrial DNA and global warming, respectively. While in Greenland, Peter has a series of strange visions that cause him to go searching for answers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thea lives in a civilization beneath the ice cap, where her people have retreated due to accusations of witchcraft and being driven to near extinction. Thea has never seen the sun and dreams of a path to the ice\u2019s surface.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_614\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-614\" class=\" wp-image-614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2021\/06\/First-Light.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2021\/06\/First-Light.png 687w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2021\/06\/First-Light-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2021\/06\/First-Light-624x916.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Published by Yearling (2008).<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How is this related to climate?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The civilization that Thea belongs to lives in spaces carved into the Greenland ice cap. The safety and survival of the civilization relies on the existence of the ice, which is possible because of the cold climate. Global warming and the melting of ice caps would make the future of this fictional civilization uncertain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>References and additional resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFirst Light.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebecca Stead<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. n.d. <a href=\"https:\/\/rebeccasteadbooks.com\/books\/first-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/rebeccasteadbooks.com\/books\/first-light\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to cite this page<\/h3>\n<p><em>First Light by Rebecca Stead<\/em>. (2023, July 12). Climate in Global Cultures and Histories: Promoting Climate Literacy Across Disciplines. Retrieved Month Date, Year, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/first-light\/\">https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/first-light\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Light tells the story of middle-grade Peter and Thea and their adventures in Greenland.\u00a0 Peter travels to Greenland with his mother and father, scientists studying mitochondrial DNA and global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-613","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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