Journey to the River Sea

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  • Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for 9–11 years (2001)
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2006)
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Journey to the River Sea

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ISBN: 9780330397155
Authors: Eva Ibbotson
Date of Publication: 2008-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 15820 readers)

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Alternative cover edition for this isbn here Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Maia, however, is resourceful enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ever imagined, from a mysterious "Indian" with an inheritance, to an itinerant actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down the Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth.
 

  • Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for 9–11 years (2001)
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.