num_pages: 142
description: Jess and her parents take her grandfather back to his childhood home so that he can finish his last painting `River Boy'. Jess is desperately trying to cope with the knowledge that her grandfather is dying and she does her best to help him finish the painting that is so important to him. Whileswimming in the river, Jess meets a boy who challenges her to swim down the river to the sea, and when Jess learns this was one of her grandfather's childhood ambitions she swims after the `River Boy' to the mouth of the river, where he disappears. Jess then learns that her grandfather has diedpeacefully, leaving her his painting of the `River Boy' - a self-portrait.
language: English
title: River Boy
titlecomplete: River Boy
genres: Family, Fiction, Paranormal, Young Adult, Childrens, Ghosts, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Middle Grade, School
ratings_count: 1657
awards: name: Angus Book Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Oxford