by Wendy Orr
In a palm tree, on an island, in the middle of the wide blue sea, was a girl. -first sentence That was what Nim called it, because soccer was the only ball game she'd ever seen a picture of -- and because nobody else has ever thought of a name for a game with a girl, a sea lion, a turtle, and an i...
This is one of several reviews I wrote for the late Secular Homeschooling Magazine. We ran an article about homeschoolers in fiction, and I rated a lot of YA novels based on how good they were and how well they handled homeschooling. Mostly, homeschoolers were hauled out as the reliable weirdos in s...
I like that as a teenager I can still enjoy this book.
My sister and I watched the DVD movie version of this book over Thanksgiving. It was very cute, so I read the book. The movie is better.Book Description from Amazon.comA girl. An iguana. An island. And e-mail. Meet Nim – a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb t...
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