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| Original Title: | Journey to the River Sea |
| ISBN: | 0142501840 (ISBN13: 9780142501849) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Amazon Rainforest |
| Literary Awards: | Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for 9–11 years (2001), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2006) |
Eva Ibbotson
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 4.18 | 11785 Users | 846 Reviews
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| Title | : | Journey to the River Sea |
| Author | : | Eva Ibbotson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | October 13th 2003 by Puffin Books (first published May 4th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Adventure. Young Adult. Childrens. Fiction |
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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.Rating Based On Books Journey to the River Sea
Ratings: 4.18 From 11785 Users | 846 ReviewsColumn Based On Books Journey to the River Sea
Maia is an orphan in London, in the early 1900s. She is in a boarding school where she has many friends and is beloved by the teachers and staff. Her familys solicitor has finally found some distant relatives who have agreed to take Maia in however, shell have to leave her school and go to Brazil where the Carters have a rubber plantation. It so happens they have just hired a new governess for their twin daughters, so Maia and Miss Minton will make the long journey together. While she is sad toA wonderful adventure story set in England and the Amazon. Richly drawn characters and beautifully written. I felt like I was there! Perfect for UKS2 - I'll be sharing this at school.
My least favourite of Ibbotsons books, I didnt particularly like any of the characters ( apart from Miss Minton) and at times the plot felt quite slow. However still an exciting adventure, with great descriptions and food for the imagination.
Eva Ibbotson, if still with us, would have been celebrating her 90th birthday in January 2015, but sadly she died in 2010. Born in Vienna, she had to move to England in 1935 when Hitler came to power. That experience -- of being uprooted -- was drawn on directly for novels like The Morning Gift (about a girl from a secular Jewish family escaping Nazi Germany) and indirectly, I suspect, for Maia, the young protagonist of Journey to the River Sea. Who has not imagined what life might be like if
"Those who think of the Amazon as a Green Hell bring only their own fears and prejudices to this amazing land. For whether a place is a hell or a heaven rests in yourself, and those who go with courage and an open mind may find themselves in Paradise" ~ Journey To the River SeaThis is the kind of book that demands an atmosphere.....a stack of sandwiches, a tall cold glass of lemonade ;topped at regular intervalsa wooden Easy-Chair (the kind your grandpa sat on and smiled genially from) placed in
This may well be my favourite book. The first time I read it, I was ten years old and it was like nothing I'd ever read before. It's just magical. Maia, the narrator, is the orphan of two famed explorer parents. Her guardian, the staid and stuffy Mr. Murray, discovers that she has relatives living in the Amazon and, thinking that Maia needs a family, he sends her off to live with Mr. and Mrs. Carter and their twin daughters. Maia goes with an open mind, expecting a loving home and great
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