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Journey to the River Sea
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Journey to the River Sea Paperback - 2003

by Ibbotson, Eva; Hawkes, Kevin [Illustrator]

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Now in paperback--Ibbotson's hair-raising novel introduces orphaned Maia, sent from England to Brazil in the early 1900s to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation. Illustrations.

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Puffin Books, 2003-10-13. Paperback. Good. 5x0x7. 298 p., clean and unmarked; binding firm; slight dog-earing of corners.
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  • Title Journey to the River Sea
  • Author Ibbotson, Eva; Hawkes, Kevin [Illustrator]
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Puffin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-10-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 030407
  • ISBN 9780142501849 / 0142501840
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.86 x 5.06 x 0.81 in (19.96 x 12.85 x 2.06 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 860
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects Amazon River Region, Orphans
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Adventure lovers will devour this one and wish that it would continue. (School Library Journal, starred review)

About the author

Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea, she won the Smarties Prize in category 9-11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner up for the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012.

From the author:
Journey to the River Sea was written quite quickly but it spent years and years inside my head. It started with my hearing about this fabled opera house a thousand miles from the mouth of the Amazon and I thought it was one of the strangest things I had ever heard - I meant to go there and see for myself but then I realised it would mean going back into the past because everything is quite different there now. So I went on reading and dreaming and researching and then one day, I picked up my pen to start a new book about witches and ghosts and found I had started to write an adventure storyset in the jungle.