Wendy Orr

Nim's Island tells the story of Nim, who lives on an island in the middle of the wide blue sea with her father Jack. Alongside them are a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion named Selkie, a turtle referred to as Chica, and a satellite dish for her email. No one else in the world lives quite like Nim,...

NOTABLE BOOK: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers If she had stayed to load the kiln as she should have, she'd never have seen the ship. Mama said the ship still would have been there, so everything had to happen the way it did. But that's not true. Clio saw it, and the world changed. When a raiders'...

This middle grade narrative by a master storyteller is an utter delight. Books+Publishing In the mountains there was a valley, and in the valley were the horses. When Honey was four and her brother Rumi was a tiny baby, her family loaded up their converted ice-cream-van-camper and drove away from all they knew, as an illness swept the sad wide...

Raven's Mountain is about Raven, who is the first to reach the mountain top, leaving her sister and step-dad still climbing the trail below. She finds herself alone on top of the world and dances—a crazy, jumping, spinning dance—because if you can climb a mountain, you can do anything! But then, there is a rumble and the earth shakes. Rocks...

Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr Nim lives on an island in the middle of the wide blue sea with her father Jack, a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie, and their new friend Alex Rover. Nim is as free as a bird, and she wouldn't swap places with anyone. But when Alex flies away in the...

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 living anywhere else. When Jack invites a group of scientists to visit, they bring their children as well. But...

In a palm tree, on an island, in the middle of the wide blue sea, was a girl.Nim's hair was wild, her eyes were bright, and around her neck she wore three cords. One was for a spyglass, one for a whorly, whistling shell, and one for a fat red pocketknife in a sheath.Nim lives on an island in the...

WINNER: 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Children's FictionWINNER: 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's LiteratureHONOUR 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...