![]() She imagines herself in a wonderland of colorful birds and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her classmates are not so optimistic they tell her it is a land of man-eating crocodiles and vicious Indian tribes. Murray, her lawyer, informs her that she will be moving to Manaus, Brazil, to live with some distant cousins, she is thrilled. Orphaned Maia lives in England at the Mayfair Academy for Young Ladies, a boarding school paid for by her parents' trust fund. The book won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. ![]() Ibbotson was a British novelist known for her imaginative adventure stories Journey to the River Sea was written as a tribute to her late husband, a naturalist. Set in the early 1900s, the story follows Maia, an English orphan who is sent to live with relatives in Brazil near the Amazon River. Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carrolls compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotsons classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea. ![]() Published in 2002, Journey to the River Sea is a children's historical fiction novel by Eva Ibbotson. ![]()
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