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Martel's novel tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. Life of Pi brings together many themes including...
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Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
8) Tigers
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Presents information about tigers, including where they live, what they are like, how they behave, what they eat, how they raise young, and the things that threaten them as a species.
13) The batboy
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It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father. There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player...
14) Ice age
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Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat become a courageous quartet of migrating misfits braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey. Creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice age ...
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"Pet care isn’t all purring and snuggles—especially when your pet is a saber tooth tiger. While Mittens likes Penelope Rex and her parents, he doesn’t like the mail carrier, the vet, the neighbors, or really any other humans at all. But above all, Mittens doesn’t like being left alone. When Penelope comes home from school to a house that’s been destroyed, she starts to wonder if she’s cut out for pet ownership." --publisher's website
19) Whatever
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Billy's dad, having tried very hard to impress his son, whose response to everything is "whatever," gets a bit of revenge.