Eva Ibbotson

Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.

Journey to the River Sea

Now in paperback--Ibbotson's hair-raising novel introduces orphaned Maia, sent from England to Brazil in the early 1900s to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation. Illustrations.

Winona 

Read this twice as a child: first for pleasure since I loved  The Star of Kazan  so much, and then again in secondary school a few years later. Wonderful prose, but this book is objectively trash. Weirdly racist colonial garbage with the most passive main character I had come across. Does not need to be on the curriculum with the way it glorifies Empire and has the mixed-race love interest be a strange exotic savage trope.

beautiful beautiful book, I read it when I was quite young and although it's for younger teens I find myself re-reading over and over

Stephanie

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous and award-winning adventure.

Marisa Shibata

4.5 ! This is a book that has been sitting on my TBR pile for over a year now..but I finally decided to read it,which I'm glad I did because this book was wonderful !!! 
And the cover of this book is so pretty

An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters. It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson's highly colourful, joyous adventure. This 15th anniversary edition includes a forward by Lauren St John, author of The White Giraffe. Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.

Journey to the River Sea

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