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Nim at Sea

Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2008:
"[An] equally winning sequel ... casting Nim, Jack and Alex into adventures that are exciting but never more than briefly scary, the author expertly shepherds the impulsive trio all the way to the Big Apple."

From the Hardcover edition.

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Title of ebook: Nim at Sea
ISBN: 9780375849329
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Internet download file size: 3005 kb
Released online for download: 03-11-2008
CL: Millard, Kerry
Author of eBook: Orr, Wendy

Chapter One

In a palm tree, on an island, in the middle of the wide blue sea, is a girl.
Nim's hair is wild, her eyes are bright, and around her neck she wears three cords. One is for a spyglass, one is for a whorly, whistling shell, and the other holds a fat red pocketknife in a sheath.
With the spyglass at her eye, Nim watched the little red seaplane depart. It sailed out through the reef to the deeper dark ocean, bumping across the waves till it was tossed into the bright blue sky. Then it rose so high and so far it was nothing but a speck, and floated out of sight.
"Alex is gone," Nim told Fred.
Fred stared at the coconuts clustered on the trunk.
Fred is an iguana, spiky as a dragon, with a cheerful snub nose. He was sitting on Nim's shoulder, and he cared more about coconuts than he did about saying goodbye. (Marine iguanas don't eat coconut, but no one has ever told Fred.)
As Nim threw three ripe coconuts thump! into the sand, she remembered Alex saying, "I never knew anything could taste better than coffee!" the first time Nim opened a coconut for her.
Nim looked down at her father, sitting like a stone on Selkie's Rock. Jack's head was bowed and his s ... read full excerpt from Nim at Sea ebook