Wendy Orr, Author Holiday House $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1289-1
This Australian import is, essentially, a realistic but uninspired portrayal of a 17-year-old's slow recovery after her neck is broken in a car accident. Adding irony to horror, athletic Anna has just won the first karate tournament on the way to a...
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Wendy Orr, Author, Jonathan Bean, Illustrator , illus. by Jonathan Bean. Holt $15.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7979-1
Orr’s (Ark in the Park
) energetic if uneven tale introduces Mokie and Bik, feisty twins who live on a boat, where they are “always overboard and underfoot” and constantly “yabber jabber yackety gabber” in a dialect...
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Wendy Orr, Author, Kate Reading, Read by , read by Kate Reading. Blackstone Audio $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-0996-3
Coinciding with the release of the movie, this finely produced audiobook captures the spirit of Orr's (Peeling the Onion
) fantastic tale. Nim has lived on a remote island with her scientist father, Jack, ever since when she was a baby and her...
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Orr (Peeling the Onion) blithely throws credibility to the wind and inventively tweaks coincidence to create a fantasy tale as welcome as a breath of fresh tropical air. Ever since her mother died when Nim was a baby, the girl and Jack, her...
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Wendy Orr, Author, Kerry Millard, Illustrator , illus. by Kerry Millard. Dell/Yearling $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-41868-9
In a starred review, PW
called this novel about a girl living on a remote island "as welcome as a breath of fresh tropical air." Ages 8-12. (June)
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