River boy
By: Tim Bowler
Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780689848049
Description: 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.  At first, Jess cannot understand why this painting is so important to her grandfather, especially since there doesn't seem to be any boy in it at all. But while swimming in the river herself, Jess begins to feel the presence of a strange boy. Could this be the same one her ailing grandfather struggles to paint? And if so, why has he returned?
Notes: Carnegie Medal, 1997.