Nim's Island
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Nim lives on an island in the middle of the wide blue sea, shared by only her father, Jack, a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie, a turtle called Chica, and a satellite dish for her e-mail. No one else in the world lives quite like Nim, and she wouldn’t swap places with anyone.
But when Jack disappears in his sail boat and disaster threatens her home, Nim must be braver than she’s ever been before. And she needs help from her friends, old and new.
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Level 5.8, 3 Points
Wendy Orr. (2018). Nim's Island. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wendy Orr. 2018. Nim's Island. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wendy Orr, Nim's Island. Blackstone Publishing, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wendy Orr. Nim's Island. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2018.
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Nim lives on an island in the middle of the wide blue sea, shared by only her father, Jack, a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie, a turtle called Chica, and a satellite dish for her e-mail. No one else in the world lives quite like Nim, and she wouldn’t swap places with anyone.
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Coinciding with the release of the movie, this finely produced audiobook captures the spirit of Orr's (Peeling the Onion
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Starred review from February 19, 2001
Orr (Peeling the Onion) blithely throws credibility to the wind and inventively tweaks coincidence to create a fantasy tale as welcome as a breath of fresh tropical air. Ever since her mother died when Nim was a baby, the girl and Jack, her scientist father, have lived on a remote island. When Jack sails off on a three-day trip to collect plankton, Nim stays behind with her three best friends: a sea lion, a marine iguana and a green sea turtle. But a storm disables Jack's boat, and Nim remains alone for a full two weeks, in contact with her father only through notes delivered by a frigate bird. As the author describes the girl's daily routine of foraging for food, doing chores and playing with her pals, she neatly slips into her narrative slivers of information about the tropical habitat (e.g., Chica the sea turtle returns each year to lay her eggs on Nim's island, where Chica was hatched). A story within a story emerges as Nim strikes up an e-mail correspondence with an author who begins writing an adventure novel—set on an island that looks exactly like Nim's. With ample doses of suspense and comedy, and a pleasingly sappy happily-ever-after ending, the tale portrays the improbable so cleverly that readers will want
to believe everything about the likable Nim and her idyllic isle. Pen-and-ink drawings that resemble Quentin Blake's bring these enchanting characters and setting to life. Ages 9-12.
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Starred review from July 1, 2002
In a starred review, PW
called this novel about a girl living on a remote island "as welcome as a breath of fresh tropical air." Ages 8-12.
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