Young Reader Book Club August: Escape to the River Sea

Our young reader book club will be reading Escape to the River Sea by Emma Carroll for the August club. As with all our clubs, book club selections are always 10% off the list price.

The target age range for this book is 9-12 (but we adults loved it too!).

Info about the book is below – ALL are welcome and admission is free. We’ll provide the pizza and dessert! If you want to reserve a spot in advance, email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com and we’ll put your name on the list. (Reserving in advance helps us know how much food to order in). You can visit our Upcoming Events page for more on continued club selections!

Moderating the book club is Miss Abby. Local teacher Abby Schmid is an Oklahoma native who moved to Summerville in 2021.

Abby grew up loving to read and that same love of stories has followed her through all phases of life. She is currently an Elementary teacher in Dorchester District 2.

We all look forward to seeing you on Main Street!

Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll’s compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson’s bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea.

In 1946, Rosa Sweetman, a young Kindertransport girl, is longing for her family to claim her. The war in Europe is over and she is the only child left at Westwood, a rambling country estate in the north of England, where she’d taken refuge seven years earlier.

The arrival of a friend of the family, Yara Fielding, starts an adventure that will take Rosa deep into the lush beauty of the Amazon rainforest in search of jaguars, ancient giant sloths and somewhere to belong.

What she finds is Yara’s lively, welcoming family on the banks of the river and, together, they face a danger greater than she could ever have imagined.

Featuring places and characters known and loved by fans of Journey to the River Sea, this spectacular new story tells of the growing threats to the Amazon rainforest that continue to this day.