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Name: River Boy
Author: Tim Bowler
Year: 1997
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Genres/categories: Award winners, Young adult, Fiction, Children, Fantasy

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Winner of the Carnegie Medal award in 1997.

Fifteen-year-old Jess's grandfather has just had a major heart attack, but he insists he finish his painting, River Boy. 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?
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