Journey to the River Sea
Eva Ibbotson, Imelda Staunton
It is 1910 – Maia, orphaned at 13, travels from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is very unhappy with her exceptionally bizarre new family but befriends Finn, a mysterious English boy who lives with the local Indians and shares her passion for the jungle. Then Finn’s past life catches up with him and they are forced to flee far upriver in a canoe, pursued by an assortment of brilliantly eccentric characters that only Eva Ibbotson could invent.
Reviews
I enjoyed reading this book. I liked how Maia found all she wanted in the Amazon and made so many friends. The plot twists were unpredictable at times and at the end, I think the twins got what they deserved! A good book for anyone 9+
Anonymous 07.07.2021
This is such a lovely book that keeps you captivated, me and my mum have read it and we both enjoyed it even though we like different types of books! If you read it, at the beginning keep reading it's quite slow to start, but it's still fab! 📚
Anonymous 02.02.2015
