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River Boy

Tim Bowler

1997136 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1997
first published
  • 1999Oxford University Press · 136 pages · ENGISBN 9780192750358
  • 2000Margaret K. McElderry Books · ENGISBN 9780689829086
  • 2001Thorndike Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780786235070
  • 1997Oxford University Press · 141 pagesISBN 9780192717566
  • 2006Oxford University Press · 144 pagesISBN 9780192754448

Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.

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Written forMiddle grade
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