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Journey to the River Sea

Journey to the River Sea

by EvaIbbotson (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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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: Main Market
 Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 25 Aug 2016
ISBN 10: 1509832254
ISBN 13: 9781509832255
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
 Book Overview: A special 15th anniversary edition of this award-winning classic adventure from Eva Ibbotson.

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.