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Journey to the River Sea: Eva Ibbotson

Journey to the River Sea: Eva Ibbotson

by EvaIbbotson (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

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Synopsis

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson's highly colourful, joyous adventure.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New Edit/Cover
 Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 08 May 2014
ISBN 10: 1447265688
ISBN 13: 9781447265689
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
 Book Overview: The award-winning classic adventure from Eva Ibbotson in which orphaned Maia travels from England to the Amazon with her governess.

Author Bio
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal and was shortlisted for both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. Some of her other young fiction titles include The Secret of Platform 13, Which Witch? and The Great Ghost Rescue. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.