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| nims island book: Nim's Island Wendy Orr, 2008-07-03 Nim lives on a beautiful island in the middle of the wide blue sea with her father, Jack, an iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie and a turtle called Chica. But when Jack disappears and disaster threatens her home, Nim must be braver than she's ever been before. And she needs help from her friends . . . Delicious adventure-fantasy for readers aged 8+. Illustrated by Kerry Millard. |
| nims island book: Rescue on Nim's Island Wendy Orr, 2014-07-01 Nim lives on an island with her father, Jack, a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie, and their friend Alex Rover, the adventure writer. Nim's island is the most beautiful place in the world, and she wouldn't swap live anywhere else. When Jack invites a group of scientists to visit, they bring their children as well. But two of the scientists have plans other than studying algae... By the time Nim discovers what they really want, and what they will do to get it, the children are in grave danger. And so is the island! Nim must choose between saving a natural treasure and saving someone's life. |
| nims island book: Nim at Sea Wendy Orr, 2008-03-11 This time Nim’s the fish-out-of-water as she stows away on a cruise ship to save her kidnapped sea lion friend. Accompanied by her likeable iguana, Fred, the island girl lands with a splash in Manhattan, on the run from of a very Bad Guy, and on her way to reunite with her friend, cowardly adventure novelist Alex Rover. Kids who are interested in animals and animal welfare will enjoy this warmhearted story’s combo of suspenseful high-seas happenings, New York City excitement, and family drama. |
| nims island book: Nim's Island Wendy Orr, 2008-02-12 A girl. An iguana. An island. And e-mail. Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad sails off to study plankton for three days, leaving her alone on their island. Besides, it’s not as if no one’s looking after her–she’s got a sea lion to mother her and an iguana for comic relief. She also has an interesting new e-mail pal. But when her father’s cell-phone calls stop coming and disaster seems near, Nim has to be stronger and braver than she’s ever been before. And she’ll need all her friends to help her. |
| nims island book: Nim's Island Wendy Orr, Kerry Millard, 2008-04-01 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. |
| nims island book: The Nim Stories Wendy Orr, Kerry Millard, 2013-03-25 A bind-up edition of two exciting adventure stories by Wendy Orr - Nim's Island and Nim at Sea . Nim's Island was a major international movie, and now there's a second action-packed movie inspired by Nim at Sea , called Return to Nim's Isl. |
| nims island book: Hello, World! My Body Jill McDonald, 2018-02-13 Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books! Young children are fascinated by their eyes, ears, nose, fingers, and toes. Here’s a Hello, World! board book that teaches toddlers all about the human body, with shapes, sizes, colors, and super-simple facts. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each sturdy page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. (How many fingers can you count on each hand?) It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: • Solar System • Weather • Backyard Bugs • Birds • Dinosaurs • My Body • How Do Apples Grow? • Ocean Life • Moon Landing • Pets • Arctic Animals • Construction Site • Rainforest Animals • Planet Earth • Reptiles • Cars and Trucks • Music • Baby Animals • On the Farm • Garden Time • Planes and Other Flying Machines • Rocks and Minerals • Snow • Let's Go Camping • School Day • Baking • From Seed to Pumpkin |
| nims island book: Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research Fernando I. Rivera, 2019-06-07 Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research provides a synthesis of the most pressing issues in natural hazards research by new professionals. The book begins with an overview of emerging research on natural hazards, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, sea-level rise, global warming, climate change, and tornadoes, among others. Remaining sections include topics such as socially vulnerable populations and the cycles of emergency management. Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research is intended to serve as a consolidated resource for academics, students, and researchers to learn about the most pressing issues in natural hazard research today. - Provides a platform for readers to keep up-to-date with the interdisciplinary research that new professionals are producing - Covers the multidisciplinary perspectives of the hazards and disasters field - Includes international perspectives from new professionals around the world, including developing countries |
| nims island book: Dragonfly Song Wendy Orr, 2016-06-22 WINNER: 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Children's Fiction WINNER: 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's Literature HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2017 There are two ways of looking at Aissa's story. She's the miracle girl who escaped the raiders. Or she's the cursed child who called the Bull King's ship to the island. The firstborn daughter of a priestess is cast out as a baby, and after raiders kill her adopted family, she is abandoned at the gates of the Great Hall, anonymous and mute. Called No-Name, the cursed child, she is raised a slave, and not until she is twelve does she learn her name is Aissa: the dragonfly. Now every year the Bull King takes a tribute from the island: two thirteen-year-old children to brave the bloody bull dances in his royal court. None have ever returned - but for Aissa it is the only escape. Aissa is resilient, resourceful, and fast - but to survive the bull ring, she will have to learn the mystery of her true nature. A riveting, mythic Bronze Age adventure from award-winning author Wendy Orr. |
| nims island book: Oysters Cynthia Nims, 2016-01-19 For oyster lovers everywhere, this luscious cookbook features recipes, shucking instructions, and the local farming success story of the many delicious oysters from the Pacific Coast. From Hangtown Hash with Fried Eggs to Half-Shell Oysters with Kimchi-Cucumber Relish, this gorgeous cookbook features 30 recipes, ideas for what to drink with oysters, and tips for buying, storing, and shucking to bring out the “oh!” in oysters. Since oysters are grown and harvested in some of the most beautiful environments on earth, the book is brimming with scenic as well as food photography. The delectable oysters grown along the West Coast—which include Pacific, Kumamoto, Olympia, and Eastern and European Flat species--are the stars of this beautiful cookbook celebrating oysters. |
| nims island book: Plotted Andrew DeGraff, Daniel Harmon, 2015-10-20 This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps - all inspired by literary classics - offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down,A Christmas Carol, and more. Sure to reignite a love for old favorites and spark fresh interest in more recent works as well, Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination. |
| nims island book: Island Born Frank Burnaby, 2012-09-01 The memoir, ISLAND BORN, challenges what is possible in love and nature. The author and his partner (and soon-to-be-wife), from vastly different backgrounds in Los Angeles, resolve to follow an intuition and sail the wrong way around the world - eastward across the Arabian Sea. Pitted against treacherous conditions that included the volatile social and political situation of the world ashore, they discover what it takes, and what it means, to surpass all previous personal and cultural expectations so that they might truly live, and in the end, truly die. Twenty-one years old, Gayle becomes pregnant in the middle of their sailing adventure, but her pregnancy does not make them retreat to Los Angeles where they began. They discover a tiny uninhabited island in a remote atoll, as barely discernible as a shake of pepper in the vast blue of their Indian Ocean chart. There they decide to give up their dream ship, and begin a real life journey neither of them could have ever imagined. With the help of an old chief on a nearby island, they build a thatched family home with no electricity, no running water, no telephone, no address, no bills, and no neighbors. ISLAND BORN seeks to answer the question of whether it is still possible to voyage to an unspoiled place, not only on the globe, but within ourselves. In meeting this risk head on, Frank and Gayle's voyage takes them to a reality of themselves that confirmed the bare whisper of that initial intuition. Together, they pull up anchor from the seabed of their culture and travel to a place where their determination, their romance, and their lives are challenged beyond the limits of each horizon, but they keep going. |
| nims island book: The Tear Thief Carol Ann Duffy, 2018-09-01 Why does the magical Tear Thief catch children's tears as they fall? Find out in this moving tale about how we express our feelings. Lyrical text by Carol Ann Duffy, one of the most prominent poets writing today, makes this a lovely read-aloud. |
| nims island book: Math Island Gillian Singler, John Koller, 2019-03-26 An unexpected trip to a magical island takes Lily and Tad on the math adventure of a lifetime. Transform your child's own mathematical and literary thinking as each character demonstrates a variety of math skills meant to reveal the power of the brain while also revealing the power of the island's secrets. Our text keeps children engaged by embedding math skills within a story line that also allows for vocabulary and literary review. Through this unprecedented blending of math and reading, not only do students gain important critical thinking skills but through our interdisciplinary approach, they also see the relationship between two seemingly different subjects. Join this brother and sister duo on an incredible journey of self-discovery and growth as they take on Cornelius and his band of brain-draining Axioms to defend the power that keeps the island alive! |
| nims island book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1892 |
| nims island book: Babyn Yar Ostap Kin, 2023-05-30 Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in English translation, the poems create a language capable of portraying the suffering and destruction of the Ukrainian Jewish population during the Holocaust as well as other peoples murdered at the site. |
| nims island book: The Complete Adventures on Nim's Island Wendy Orr, 2020-04-28 All three Nim novels - Nim's Island, Nim at Sea and Rescue on Nim's Island - collected in one edition to celebrate the 21st Anniversary of the original publication of Nim's Island. |
| nims island book: Rainbow Street Pets Wendy Orr, 2012 Six tail-wagging, melt-your-heart stories of loyal, lost, playful and cuddly pets from the author of Nim's Island. At the end of a narrow street is a little blue house with a rainbow painted over a cherry-red door. It's the Rainbow Street Animal Shelter, and it is the best place for lost animals, and the best place to find a pet. Meet Bear, the border collie who goes home to the wrong house in the wrong car! And Nelly, the stumpy-tail dog who helps children learn to read. Buster the growly marmalade cat turns out to be a hero, and Pebbles the pony is stolen away and lost in the bush. Bella the runaway beagle might be clever enough to be a sniffer dog... but who would have a lion cub as a pet? Six adorable stories about animals you'll love, and the children who love them. |
| nims island book: The Vikings Elizabeth Janeway, 2010-11 An account of the explorations of Eric the Red and his son, Leif Ericson, in the New World, 500 years before Columbus. |
| nims island book: Airman Eoin Colfer, 2009-11-02 Conor Broekhart was born to fly. It is the 1890s, and Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. |
| nims island book: The Battle of Bubble and Squeak Philippa Pearce, 2016-11-10 'Philippa Pearce's books are outstanding' - Guardian Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests them. A major family battle results, and it's clear life is never going to be quite the same again. But after a near fatal encounter between Bubble and Ginger the cat, Mrs Sparrow begins to see that life with a pair of gerbils might not be so bad after all. |
| nims island book: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien, 2011-01-06 Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret . . . Time is running out for Mrs Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children. She must move her family before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and is too sick to be taken on such a perilous journey. Help comes in the unexpected form of a highly extraordinary breed of super-intelligent rats. The rats of NIMH come up with a brilliant solution to Mrs Frisby's problem but the rats are in danger too, and little by little Mrs Frisby discovers their extraordinary past . . . A thrilling fantasy adventure with heartwarming characters and some extraordinary rodents. Winner of the Newbery Medal. |
| nims island book: Digiduck's Big Decision Lindsay Buck, 2016 An illustrated children's story book telling the story of Digiduck and his friends, to help children understand how to be a good friend to others on the Internet. This is the newer and larger A4 version which has some additional e-safety information for parents. |
| nims island book: By the Great Horn Spoon! Sid Fleischman, Eric Von Schmidt, 1988-04-30 Jack and the butler stow away on a side-wheeler bound for California where they join the Gold Rush of 1849. |
| nims island book: The Third Pole Mark Synnott, 2022-04-05 ***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”—Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke.” What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul—and your life—if you let it. The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest’s summit still “going strong” for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable. . . . Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Readers witness first-hand how Synnott’s quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnott’s team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope—one slip and no one would have been able to save him—committed to solving the mystery. Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession. |
| nims island book: Julieta and the Diamond Enigma Luisana Duarte Armendáriz, 2020 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Merci Suarez in this smart young middle-grade mystery about a diamond gone missing from the Louvre and the sweet and spunky girl who cracks the case. |
| nims island book: Morning Girl Michael Dorris, 1999-05 Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America. In Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world. |
| nims island book: The Way To Impossible Island Sophie Kirtley, 2021-07-08 'Dazzling storytelling' - Hilary McKay Born with a serious heart condition, Dara has been waiting for his Big Operation forever, and this summer it's finally going to happen. The moment his heart is fixed he'll row out to the island in the bay all by himself just like he's always dreamed. But when his op is postponed, Dara snaps. When will he get to live his real life? Maybe the adventures he dreams of are just silly fantasies. And then he finds a girl hiding in the boat shed. She wears animal skins. She has a real live pet wolf. She is, simply, impossible. Could Mothgirl really be from the Stone Age? And what is she seeking on Lathrin Island? As Dara and Mothgirl set out on a wild, windswept sea journey Dara begins to realise that when you stop worrying about what's impossible, you can do anything. A brave, life-affirming middle-grade timeslip adventure about finding your family and finding yourself, from the author of The Wild Way Home. |
| nims island book: Nim's Island Wendy Orr, 2002-06-11 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. |
| nims island book: Zac Power: Ultimate Mission H. I. Larry, 2010-10-01 First it was MEGA, then it was EXTREME. Now it’s ULTIMATE! Is this the last Zac Power super series? A very special format for all Zac Power fans, the Ultimate Mission is three times the length of a regular Zac Power mission! Zac Power is facing his biggest challenge ever! And this time the whole world is in danger... GIB’s worst enemies have joined forces for their most evil plan yet, led by a mysterious new enemy called the Shadow. This mission will be the ultimate test of Zac’s spy skills – especially if it means the end of the Government Investigation Bureau. |
| nims island book: Tornado Betsy Byars, 1996-06-30 An essential student guide to working with Children and Families |
| nims island book: A Collection of Friends Thomas F. Sheehan, 2004 Five-time Pushcart nominee Thomas Sheehan writes lovingly about his friends and family in this unusual and heartfelt memoir. Self-effacing and all-too-human, Sheehan masters the sights and sounds of his world and draws readers inside without being too sentimental. |
| nims island book: Lila and the Secret of Rain David Conway, 2011-04-01 For months the sun has burned down on Lila's Kenyan village. It is too hot to gather firewood, too hot to weed the garden, even too hot to milk the cow. Without rain the well will run dry and the crops will fail. Lila is so worried that when her grandfather whispers to her the secret of rain, she decides to go and talk to the sky herself. How Lila saves the village by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows is told in David Conway's elegant and spare prose style, which is complemented perfectly by Jude Daly's beautiful and poignant illustrations. |
| nims island book: History of Suffolk County W. W. Munsell, Co., Pub, 2014-11-23 Hardcover reprint of the original 1882 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: W.W. Munsell & Co., Pub. History Of Suffolk County, New York. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: W.W. Munsell & Co., Pub. History Of Suffolk County, New York, . New York: W.W. Munsell & Co., 1882. |
| nims island book: Darwin's Dragons Lindsay Galvin, 2020-12-01 Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime on Charles Darwin’s ship. But after being shipwrecked on a Galapagos island, he makes a discovery that could change the world—and make his fortune. Should he share his find, or will it lead to the extinction of a legendary species? |
| nims island book: The Dreamer Pam Muñoz Ryan, 2012-03 A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world |
| nims island book: Because Mo Willems, 2019-03-05 Mo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, composes a powerful symphony of chance, discovery, persistence, and magic in this moving tale of a young girl's journey to center stage. Illustrator Amber Ren brings Willems' music to life, conducting a stunning picture-book debut. |
| nims island book: Haunted House Jan Pieńkowski, 2005 A fun walk through a haunted house with lots of pop-up surprises on the way! |
Nim's Island - Wendy Orr
An irresistible adventure fantasy about Nim – a young girl alone on a tropical island except for her three amazing friends: an iguana, a sea-lion and a turtle. When a hurricane strikes, Nim …
Nim's Island: Orr, Wendy, Millard, Kerry: 9780385736060: Amazon.com: Books
Feb 12, 2008 · Wendy Orr wrote her very first draft of Nim’s Island at age nine. An action-packed sequel, Nim at Sea, brings Nim to an even bigger island, when the intrepid island girl stows …
Nim's Island (Nim, #1) by Wendy Orr - Goodreads
Jan 1, 2001 · Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when …
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Jan 20, 2022 · 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 …
Nim's Island - Random House Children's Books
Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad …
Nim's Island - Brave Writer
Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad …
Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, Kerry Millard, Paperback - Barnes
Feb 12, 2008 · Wendy Orr wrote her very first draft of Nim’s Island at age nine. An action-packed sequel, Nim at Sea, brings Nim to an even bigger island, when the intrepid island girl stows …
Nim's Island Paperback – June 11, 2002 - amazon.com
Jun 11, 2002 · "There is real humor and a gentle magic in Nim's Island which will easily make it a favorite for children--and their parents! One not to miss." -- Cairns Post (Australia).
Nim's Island - PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Wendy Orr wrote her very first draft of Nim’s Island at age nine. An action-packed sequel, Nim at Sea, brings Nim to an even bigger island, when the intrepid island girl stows away on a cruise …
Nim Series by Wendy Orr - Goodreads
Nim's Island (Nim, #1), Nim at Sea (Nim #2), Rescue on Nim's Island (Nim #3), The Nim Stories, and The Complete Adventures on Nim's Island
Nim's Island - Wendy Orr
An irresistible adventure fantasy about Nim – a young girl alone on a tropical island except for her three amazing friends: an iguana, a sea-lion and a turtle. When a hurricane strikes, Nim …
Nim's Island: Orr, Wendy, Millard, Kerry: 9780385736060: Amazon.com: Books
Feb 12, 2008 · Wendy Orr wrote her very first draft of Nim’s Island at age nine. An action-packed sequel, Nim at Sea, brings Nim to an even bigger island, when the intrepid island girl stows …
Nim's Island (Nim, #1) by Wendy Orr - Goodreads
Jan 1, 2001 · Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when …
Nim's island : Orr, Wendy, 1953- : Free Download, Borrow, and …
Jan 20, 2022 · 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 …
Nim's Island - Random House Children's Books
Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad …
Nim's Island - Brave Writer
Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad …
Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, Kerry Millard, Paperback - Barnes
Feb 12, 2008 · Wendy Orr wrote her very first draft of Nim’s Island at age nine. An action-packed sequel, Nim at Sea, brings Nim to an even bigger island, when the intrepid island girl stows …
Nim's Island Paperback – June 11, 2002 - amazon.com
Jun 11, 2002 · "There is real humor and a gentle magic in Nim's Island which will easily make it a favorite for children--and their parents! One not to miss." -- Cairns Post (Australia).
Nim's Island - PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Wendy Orr wrote her very first draft of Nim’s Island at age nine. An action-packed sequel, Nim at Sea, brings Nim to an even bigger island, when the intrepid island girl stows away on a cruise …
Nim Series by Wendy Orr - Goodreads
Nim's Island (Nim, #1), Nim at Sea (Nim #2), Rescue on Nim's Island (Nim #3), The Nim Stories, and The Complete Adventures on Nim's Island
