River Boy

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. River Boy also won the 1999 Angus Book Award. Margaret K. McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster) published the first U.S. edition in 2000 (ISBN 0-689-82908-6).