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In the early 1950's, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England, At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table" - - as far from the Captain's Table as can be -- with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Seuz Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like...
2) Life of Pi
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Pi is a small boy bound by ship to America with a boatload of animals. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, and a bengal tiger.