# Rebecca Stead — books assigned in US schools

**2** books by Rebecca Stead appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Lexile range:** 750L–750L
**Grade span:** 4–8
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/rebecca-stead
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- 1970s NYC
- friendship
- metanarrative
- mystery
- time travel (speculative)

## Genres

- Juvenile Fiction
- Middle Grade Mystery / Speculative

## Every Rebecca Stead title on file

- [When You Reach Me](https://readinglist.school/book/when-you-reach-me) _(750L · Grades 4–8 · 2009)_
- [The Experiment](https://readinglist.school/book/the-experiment) _(Grades 4–5)_

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