 First edition | |
| Author | Tim Bowler |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Jason Friend |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young-adult novel, supernatural fiction |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 1997 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 135 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-271756-6 |
| OCLC | 787800429 |
River Boy is a young adult novel by Tim Bowler, published by Oxford in 1997. It is the story of a teenage girl facing the prospect of bereavement. Bowler won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[1][2] River Boy also won the 1999 Angus Book Award.[3]
Margaret K. McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster) published the first U.S. edition in 2000 (ISBN 0-689-82908-6).[4][5]
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