Wendy Orr
1) Nim's Island
Author
Series
Nim series volume 1
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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 2
Pub. Date
2011
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.
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
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 4
Pub. Date
2012
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 that led her to open Rainbow Street Animal Shelter.
Author
Series
Minoan wings volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
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
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
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Leira is training to be a priestess, but after an earthquake on her island forces her and her family to flee to Crete, there is a volcanic eruption that destroys the island and a tsunami that throws Crete into chaos, as she and her mother struggle to survive.
10) Nim's island
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
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...
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Nim is the precocious daughter of scientist father Jack. Nim, a bit older now, still has a gift to be "one with nature" and her amazing animal friends. But now that developers and poachers threaten her island, she and her dad must fight to preserve their pristine home and its abundant wildlife.