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Author Martel, Yann.

Title Life of Pi / Yann Martel.

Publisher New York : Harcourt, [2001]
©2001

Copies

ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Ashland adult fiction  MARTEL    AVAILABLE
 Bayfield adult fiction  MAR    AVAILABLE
 Boulder Junction adult fiction  FIC MAR    AVAILABLE
 Cable adult fiction  FIC MAR pb    AVAILABLE
 Drummond adult fiction  F PB MAR    AVAILABLE
 Eagle River adult fiction  FIC MAR    AVAILABLE
 Grantsburg adult fiction  MARTEL    AVAILABLE
 Hayward adult and young adult fiction  MAR c.1    AVAILABLE
 Iron River adult fiction  F MAR pb    AVAILABLE
 Lac Courte Oreilles adult fiction  FICTION MARTEL    AVAILABLE

Edition First U.S. edition.
Descript xii, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Note Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 16 65915.
Local Note Book Club choice.
Note Physical description based on hardcover edition.
Summary The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?
Audience 830 Lexile.
Subject Survival -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Pacific Ocean -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Ocean travel -- Fiction.
Zoo animals -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Tiger -- Fiction.
ISBN/ISSN 0151008116
0156027321
0156030209 paperback
0965042956 paperback