The Last Bear - Hannah Gold’s debut - was one of my stand-out reads of 2021 and quite rightly, in my opinion, won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. So her second book had some very big paw-prints to follow in. I needn’t have worried, along came White Beak with rainbow hearts in her breath.
With his mum struggling with her mental health and hospitalised, Rio finds himself heading to California to stay with a grandmother he barely knows. Ocean Bay is definitely not home and his stay is lonely and frustrating until he meets Marina, a carefree girl who invites him on her dad’s whale watching trips. Seeing White Beak, a grey whale, sparks something inside of Rio and when she vanishes he must venture out into the vast ocean to find the whale that he hopes can save his mum…
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