Nim’s Island, written by Australian author Wendy Orr, is a humorous adventure that chronicles the adventures of Nim (Abigail Breslin).  Nim is a young girl living a high-tech, “Robinson Crusoe” existence on an unspoiled tropical island with her scientist father (Gerard Butler), a motherly sea lion, a rambunctious iguana, and a sea turtle.

 

When Nim's father embarks on a day of research at sea, she begins an unlikely e-mail communication with an agoraphobic novelist (Jodie Foster) in New York. After a storm prevents her father's return and unpredictable dangers confront Nim and the island, she must find the resources to survive. 

 

When the novelist realises that her pen-friend is not a scientist, but a little girl alone and in trouble she has to find the courage to leave her safe haven and rescue Nim.