Sarah Holding
I offer inspirational creative experiences that free up young imaginations and deliver a lasting love of reading and writing.
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Books by Sarah Holding
I write compelling stories and poems for our time.
I am passionate about the environment and learning more about our beautiful planet, and I am now known as an author writing climate fiction or ‘cli-fi’, a genre in which changes to our climate feature strongly in the story. I’ve written an op-ed about cli-fi for Guardian Children's Books as well as giving a TEDx talk on cli-fi, entitled ‘Stories from the Future’. My books have been discussed on BBC Radio Scotland's Culture Show and widely reviewed in the Guardian and elsewhere.
I love working with teachers to support their environment-themed topics and showing children how they too can write environment-inspired fiction or ‘cli-fi’.
Over the last 10 years I have given talks and creative writing workshops at more than 250 schools. I’m experienced at working with children with special educational needs of all kinds, and aim to make all my talks and workshops fun, inclusive, relevant and responsive.
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SeaBEAN: the trilogy
Life for Alice and the five other children living on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda was challenging enough, but when the strange C-Bean Mark 3 shows up and they discover only Alice can control it, their whole world changes. The C-Bean transports them far and wide to New York, Australia and the Amazon rainforest, and soon leads them to realise there are forces at work that have put the whole planet in jeopardy.
Caught up in a dizzying whirl of time travel, where they travel by accident to the past and are then imprisoned against their will in the future, Alice and her friends find themselves at the mercy of a motley crew of animals, prisoners, cyborgs and orphans. It’s only when her desperate attempts to get back to her own time seem doomed, that Alice finally sees the truth and finds the courage to act.
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CHAMELEON
Shortly before the fall of Atlantis, genetic engineers create three new prototypes, Kam, Mel and Leon, the first humans to have blue eyes and shapeshifting capabilities.
With climatic conditions on Earth spinning rapidly out of control, it seems the future of Atlantean civilization depends entirely on whether the three test subjects can find a way to work together to solve the deepening crisis.
But first they need to find each other.
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How to Write a Poem
This collection of poems for young children is about celebrating the adventure of growing up, of belonging to a family, of coming to terms with our feelings about the world around us.
In lively, understated and often funny verse, Sarah Holding shares her love of words and her sense of wonder about nature. These read-out-loud poems will appeal to anyone who’s got the hang of reading and inspire them to try writing poems of their own.
Written during lockdown, ‘How to write a poem’ is Sarah Holding’s first collection of poetry. It was published on National Poetry Day, October 7th 2021.
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blackloop
A freak electro-magnetic pulse leaves 17-year-old Bo and six other teenagers trapped inside a building in the British seaside resort of Blackpool, desperately trying to work out what just happened, why they can’t get out, and how to survive the weirdest weekend of their lives. Dealing with each other’s egos and issues is nothing compared to the fallout unleashed by the solar event, because hidden beneath the building they discover it has activated a powerful energy device called blackloop. As blackloop starts affecting everyone and everything in its vicinity, can Bo, who’s still grieving the loss of her mum, summon the courage to confront her fears, realise she’s falling in love, and make a move on Karim before it’s too late?
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