Anything Can Happen on the River Author:Carol Ryrie Brink When Jacques, a 14 year old French boy, came to Paris to find a friend of his dead father's, he ran into many adventures, experienced danger, but finally succeeded in his task. — His father had left a river barge which was stolen. Through friends, janine and her father, circus people, he recovered it. He knew the secret panel on the barge and h... more »is tiny key fitted the lock, thereby proving his ownership.