SeaBEAN

LoveReading4Kids Says

Presenting all three books in a trailblazing time-travel cli-fi trilogy to mark its 10th anniversary, Sarah Holding’s SeaBEAN is fast-paced, thought-provoking and driven by the courage of a crew of kids who live on a remote Scottish island.  

The action opens on St Kilda in 2018, when Alice is just ten and has lived on the scarcely-populated island for five years. Everything changes when she finds a mysterious black box on the beach. A box Alice opens with a small sheet of metal bearing the words “C-Bean Mk. 3” and “a hologram image of a globe that shimmered in the sunlight”.

So far, so strange, and matters mount stranger still when one of Alice’s classmates brings in a seabean seed pod to a show and tell session (it must have somehow washed up from the Amazon). Then, soon after, it emerges that Alice is able to use the C-Bean as a vehicle for travelling the world, and through time.  

Interspersed with Alice’s blog posts, and rising with escalating urgency to its thrilling SeaRISE climax, SeaBEAN amounts to a unique adventure that’s likely to grip 12+-year-olds who are engaged with ecological issues, and those who enjoy quest-driven tales of courage.

Reviewed by Joanne Owen
Joanne Owen is a writer, reviewer and workshop presenter whose lifelong love of books began when she was growing up in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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About SeaBEAN

Life for Alice and the five other children living on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda was challenging enough, but when a strange time travel device shows up and they discover only Alice can control it, their whole world changes.

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