Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format: Super 6 (guided reading - 6 copies per set) - Fiction

Number of pages: 292

Reading Age: 9-11 Interest Level: 9-13

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.6 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Red/Black (Gifted and Talented)

Notes: 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 this highly colourful, joyous adventure.

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