Journey to the River Sea - Paperback
by Eva Ibbotson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eva Ibbotson, Kevin HawkesAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2003-10-13Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Puffin BooksISBN-13:9780142501849ISBN-10:142501840UPC:9780142501849Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Family, Action & AdventureBook Topic:Exploration & Discovery, Orphans & Foster HomesSize:7.86 x 5.06 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.52Product ID:SC2RQJXMCN
With the memorable characters and plot twists she brings to her best-selling fantasies, acclaimed author Eva Ibbotson has written a hair-raising novel, set in turn-of-the-last-century Brazil.
Accompanied by Miss Minton, a fierce-looking, no-nonsense governess, Maia, a young orphan, sets off for the wilderness of the Amazon, expecting curtains of orchids, brightly colored macaws, and a loving family. But what she finds is an evil-tempered aunt and uncle and their spoiled daughters. It is only when she is swept up in a mystery involving a young Indian boy, a homesick child actor, and a missing inheritance that Maia lands in the middle of the Amazon adventure she's dreamed of. Readers of every generation will treasure Ibbotson's lush historical adventure that harkens back to the beloved classics of Frances Hodgson Burnett and Louisa May Alcott.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Puffin BooksISBN-13:9780142501849ISBN-10:142501840UPC:9780142501849Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Family, Action & AdventureBook Topic:Exploration & Discovery, Orphans & Foster HomesSize:7.86 x 5.06 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.52Product ID:SC2RQJXMCN
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.
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.
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