Journey to the river sea / Eva Ibbotson.
Publisher: London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2021Edition: 20th anniversary [edition] / introduction by Emma CarrollDescription: 291 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0046849082ISBN: 9781529066197 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Amazon River Region -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Adventure stories. | Children's stories. | Fiction 9+. | Adventure and Mystery Stories.DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: Maia, orphaned at 13, is unhappy to be staying with relatives hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She becomes friends with an English boy who lives with the locals. They are forced to flee upriver, pursued by an assortment of eccentric characters.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A special 20th anniversary edition of this awardÂwinning classic adventure from Eva Ibbotson.Winner of the 2001 Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal. Shortlisted for the 2001 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2002 Whitbread Children's Book Award. 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.An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters.
Previous edition: 2001.
Maia, orphaned at 13, is unhappy to be staying with relatives hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She becomes friends with an English boy who lives with the locals. They are forced to flee upriver, pursued by an assortment of eccentric characters.
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