SeaBEAN (Book 1 of the SeaBean Trilogy)
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Seabean Book 1 of the Seabean Trilogy
Only 3 left in stock - order soon. Only 1 left in stock more on the way. Together with her five school mates, they discover the box is called C-Bean and it has extraordinary power to transport them anywhere in the world! Follow Alice and her friends as they travel from the remote island of St.
Kilda to New York, the Amazon, Hong Kong and even time travel as they are thrown back to the Victorian era and then to The compendium unites all three books which are also available separately.
Seabean Book 1 of the Seabean Trilogy Press Reviews
Read more Read less. Here's how restrictions apply Pre-order Price Guarantee! Order now and if the Amazon. Here's how restrictions apply. About the Author Having worked as a postman, an architect, a university professor and an urban development consultant, Sarah Holding is now a full-time children's author juggling writing while looking after a family of three children. Medina Publishing; compendium edition December 19, Language: I'd like to read this book on Kindle Don't have a Kindle?
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Please try again later. This is a very neat, appealing, weird little book.
These are great chapter books and combine adventure with some educational tid-bits, but they are aimed, appropriately, at brand new readers. It is very well written; it has much, much more well-developed characters; it devotes a lot of attention to, and invests a lot of creative energy into, the actual nature of the C-Bean transport device and its impact on the children of isolated St. The set up is clever and engaging.
There is a scientific outpost on remote St.
While the adults work on a project involving harnessing sea wave energy, the six kids are pretty much on their own and for all practical purposes are being home schooled together. Our heroine, Alice, is bright, inquisitive, and both attracted too and hemmed in by her island life. One day a mysterious black cube is delivered to the island. It is left unclaimed on the beach, and Alice figures out how to use it. Alice finds a way in to it and begins to use it.
Then, it is finally delivered to her school, and Alice, her teacher, and the other kids begin really to use it. Rather, the author uses the cube and its ability to transport the kids and to move them through time and space, to see and learn about different parts of the world, with an emphasis on environmental and ecological threats to the Earth.
SeaBEAN | Edinburgh Book Review
The kids, who have distinct and well-developed personalities, react differently to the cube and to what it shows them. Lists with This Book. Dec 07, J. This review also appears on Joe Follansbee's blog.
When I was 10 years old, a field trip was the quickest way to get me excited about a school subject. It was a moment of freedom from the boredom of the classroom that all of my friends—and probably the teacher as well—relished. But what if you could walk into a high-tech, wire This review also appears on Joe Follansbee's blog. But what if you could walk into a high-tech, wired classroom with a passel of eager kids and head off to anyplace on the planet, taking the classroom with you?
The action takes place in the year on St.
Kilda, a remote group of islands off the western coast of Scotland. Alice is the precocious ten-year-old daughter of a green energy researcher and his wife who have taken up residence on the island to install an experimental wave energy system. The small community includes a half-dozen children, all taught by a single teacher. The kid-friendly device is easy for Alice to crack, and she leads her school friends on travels to New York, Brasil, China, and St. As children of green energy pioneers, they are keenly interested in caring for the environment, and they quickly learn that some adults prefer profiting off the earth than caring for it.
Told with a mixture of faux blog postings and conventional narrative, SeaBEAN is an enjoyable fantasy with a clear message about environmental stewardship. But the author missed a couple of opportunities for deeper exploration of Alice and her world.