Journey to the River Sea (Paperback)

from HeatherSwinford

This book is about the adventures of an orphaned English girl who must travel an live with her terrible relatives in Brazil. The main character is very loving and trusting. The characters are all adventurous and connected with the bond of family. Each of the main characters are wanting to have th...

from Bduke

This wasn't a recent read, but we have it in our Blevins library and it remains one of my all-time favorite children's books. It is slightly Dickensian in flavor, because the good people are very, very good, and the bad people are horrid. It is set in the Amazon Rain Forest and has plenty of acti...

from tipsister

I picked up Journey to the River Sea, by Eva Ibbotson, strictly because I needed a book written by an "I" author. Fortunately I chose wisely and thanks to the A to Z Challenge, I found a wonderful book that I probably would never have looked at otherwise. Maia is an orphan who is leaving the secu...

from mzonderm

At first, this looks like a fairly predictable orphaned-English-girl-gets-shipped-off-to-live-with-distant-relatives story. Predictably, the family Maia is to live with in Brazil is horrid, and only allowed her to come at all so that they could get the allowance that comes with her. Fortunately, ...

from Jill.Haner

I have read Eva Ibbotson's teen books, so when I saw she was on the list of children's book I had to read it. I read it in one night. Nobody creates a more visually stimulating world better than Ibbotson. I could feel the heat, taste the nasty English food, and see every expression on every chara...