Wendy Orr
1) Nim's island
Author
Series
Nim series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.
2) Nim at sea
Author
Series
Nim series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Alex leaves the island, and Selkie the sea lion is kidnapped, Nim accidentally stows away on the cruise ship that took Selkie, in the hopes of rescuing her and bringing Alex back.
3) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Living in the valley of horses, her family's safe haven, Honey discovers when her father becomes ill that there's a magic which prevents them from ever leaving and must discover a way to escape the valley to find help from a world she only knows through stories.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
393 pages : b illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nobody but the old wise-woman knows what truly happened to Aissa, the firstborn daughter of the priestess. If they saw the half-moon scars on the servant girl's wrists they would find it out, but who would look twice at lowly, mute No-Name? Only the Lady's cats, and the fireflies summoned by her silent song. Then the soldiers of Crete come, demanding children as tribute for their god-king's bull dances, and Aissa is determined to take destiny into...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
274 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Leira is starting her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption and tsunami throw the entire world into darkness. In the resulting chaos, Leira finds her noble-born privilege reduced to nothing; alone with her injured mother and...
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Logan's dog runs away as he and his mother are moving to a new home after his parents separate, a girl named Hannah, who longs for a dog of her own, finds him.
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mona McNeil returns to visit her grandparents' farm as an adult, she recalls the summer she spent there raising Kiki, a lion cub she got as an eighth birthday gift from her uncle Matthew--an experience the led her to open Rainbow Street Animal Shelter.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
284 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Bronze-Age Crete, before horses were common on the island, potter's-daughter Clio continues to raise and train them even though an accident has left her unable to ride. After a series of difficult years in the community, the threat of raiders prompts the town's ruling Lady to demand the sacrifice of a maiden between ages twelve and fourteen, who will be selected at the spring equinox. Certain that she will be named the sacrifice, Clio struggles...
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mona at the Rainbow Street Shelter finds the perfect home--and job--for an energetic beagle puppy who loves to sniff.
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finding a horse in the park, Amy takes it to the Rainbow Street Shelter and secretly hopes the owner never turns up.
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his pet rabbit dies, Josh feels sad and does not want to own another pet until an elderly neighbor's cat goes missing.
13) Mokie & Bik
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
For two rambunctious twins, living on a boat means always being underfoot or overboard.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
75 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
With their father home from the sea, the rambunctious twins Mokie and Bik make the Bullfrog shipshape for a voyage out to sea, where they make friends with a scaredy-seal, save a runaway boat, and keep track of Waggles.
15) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...