by Wendy Orr · Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722036191
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«A Ilha de Nim» is the adventure and fantasy novel by Wendy Orr, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (120 pages, in Portuguese).
Nim is a girl who lives on a remote island with her scientist father, Jack, and her animals: the iguana Fred, the sea lion Selkie, and the turtle Chica. When Jack disappears at sea and a storm threatens the island, Nim must show extraordinary courage with the help of her animal friends and a writer she knows through email.
First instalment of Wendy Orr's «Nim» series; the English original, «Nim's Island», was published in 1999.
For child and young adult readers who enjoy stories of survival in nature and with animals.
Wendy Orr is a Canadian-born Australian writer born in Edmonton, Alberta. She is probably best known as the author of Nim's Island, which was made into a film in 2008 starring Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler. In 1995, she received the CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers award.
