Life Of Pi
Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 193
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, human-animal relationships, storytelling, teenage boys, ocean travel, pacific ocean, survival, zoo animals [X], orphans, human-animal relationship, tigers, adventure fiction [X]
Belly Up
Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 56
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: mystery fiction, zoos, zoo animals [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, adventure fiction [X]