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.
year: 2003, 2001, 2012, 2002, 2004
call number/section: 1000, 813.54, 813
subjects: survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, fiction, human-animal relationships, storytelling, teenage boys, ocean travel, pacific ocean, fiction, survival, zoo animals, orphans, human-animal relationship, tigers, adventure fiction
Editions
Martel, Yann
Harcourt (2003)
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Schools: 13
Martel, Yann
Harcourt (2001)
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Schools: 46
Martel, Yann
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2012)
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Schools: 4
Martel, Yann
HighBridge Audio (2002)
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.
Schools: 2
Martel, Yann
Harcourt (2004)
A young man, enroute from India to Canada, faces danger from animals headed to his father's zoo while trapped on a lifeboat.
Schools: 11