Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : 9780439567633
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.
Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781529059359
Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.A beautiful edition of the much-loved adventure story by Eva Ibbotson with a foreword by Lauren St John.Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon. She imagines a loving family with whom she will share great adventures. Instead she finds two spiteful cousins who see the jungle as the enemy and refuse to go outdoors. But the wonders of the rainforest more than make up for the hideous twins and their parents. And when Maia meets a mysterious boy who lives alone on the wild river shores, she begins a spectacular journey to the heart of an extraordinary and beautiful new world.A joyous Amazon adventure set in the lush nature of Brazil, Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea is a modern classic loved by adults and children alike. This edition features a foreword by Lauren St John.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
Author : Emma Carroll
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1529062713
Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson's bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea. 'A joyously animal-packed adventure.' – Hilary McKay, Costa Award-winning author of The Skylark's War In 1946, Rosa Sweetman, a young Kindertransport girl, is longing for her family to claim her. The war in Europe is over and she is the only child left at Westwood, a rambling country estate in the north of England, where she'd taken refuge seven years earlier. The arrival of a friend of the family, Yara Fielding, starts an adventure that will take Rosa deep into the lush beauty of the Amazon rainforest in search of jaguars, ancient giant sloths and somewhere to belong. What she finds is Yara’s lively, welcoming family on the banks of the river and, together, they face a danger greater than she could ever have imagined. Featuring places and characters known and loved by fans of Journey to the River Sea (including, among others, Maia, Finn, Miss Minton and Clovis) this spectacular story tells of the next generation and the growing threats to the Amazon rainforest that continue to this day.
Author : Teddy Keen
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0711254478
A gripping and beautifully illustrated story set in the heart of the Amazon, featuring dramatic encounters with animals, dangerous rapids, and extraordinary discoveries.
Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0230737919
'Blending history and tragedy with an irresistible wit and verve.' – The Times The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson is an exciting story of friendship and determination during the Second World War, from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan. Illustrated with a gorgeous updated cover by Katie Hickey. Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton Hall is a far more interesting place than Tally ever imagined, and an exciting school trip to the beautiful and luscious kingdom of Bergania whisks Tally into an unexpected adventure . . . Will she be able to save her new friend, Prince Karil, from terrible danger before it's too late?
Author : Jillian Powell
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781407175065
Read & Respond has been fully updated with new content. Itprovi teachers with a wealth of resources to teach Journeyto the River Sea. Notes and activities reflect the Curriculum and include shared texts, guided reading notes, reading activities, speaking and listening activities, writing projects and assessment guidance.
Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0330477404
Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .
Author : Jana Oliver
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1447241363
Briar Rose believes in fairy tales . . . And now, because of a family curse, she’s living one. Doomed to fall asleep for one hundred years on her sixteenth birthday, Briar has woken up in the darkest, most twisted fairy tale she could ever have dreamed of – miles away from the safe, boring small-town life that she has left behind. Briar must fight her way out of the story, but she can’t do it alone. She always believed in handsome princes, and now she’s met one her only chance is to put her life in his hands, or there will be no happy ever after and no waking up . . .
Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101563966
The ghosts of Britain need a sanctuary. Castles with central heating, bogs drained for motorways, dismal forests cleared for car parks-there are few places left for a respectable ghost to haunt. Humphrey the Horrible (actually his name is simply Humphrey-he added "the Horrible" to help himself become horrible) is a small, mostly unsuccessful ghost in a family of ghastly ghouls. His mother worries. But Humphrey has enough pluck to befriend a smart, politically aware schoolboy, Rick Henderson, who is willing to take the ghosts' cause right to the top, to number 10 Downing Street-home of the Prime Minister.
Author : Jonathan Waterman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1426205058
An eye-witness account of the many demands on the Colorado, from irrigating 3.5 million acres of farmland to watering the lawns of Los Angeles.
