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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
Author
Publisher
Owl Hollow Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Isha is sent to live with her grandparents in the Indian countrysides, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has taken refuge. Isha's crusade to save the cub becomes the catalyst for a life or death cultural controversy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano BooksHenry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a place in a book called Happy World becomes just too perfect and sweet for a tiger named Knuckle and a bear named Potty, they decide the only way to get out is to erase it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Thank you day
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Preparing special notes to place on the Thank You Tree in the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Daniel Tiger and his friends think of various polite ways to express their gratitude to those who help them.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"It's Love Day in Daniel Tiger's neighborhood! How does Daniel Tiger say 'I love you?' By making paper hearts for his friends! Then he gets a special Love Day surprise!"--Page 4 of cover.
15) Tiger's dream
Author
Series
Tiger's curse volume 5
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
" A tiger left behind. A goddess in need of an ally. Stranded in a time and place he never wished for, Kishan Rajaram struggles to forget the girl he loves and the brother who stole her away as he fulfills his divine role that of assisting the beautiful, yet extremely irritable, goddess Durga. When the wily shaman Phet appears and tells Kishan that Kelsey needs him, he jumps at the chance to see her again, but in saving Kelsey, he discovers that the...
Author
Series
Honey badger chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Emily "Tock" Lepstein-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she's narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey--not even a dog-loving tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn't matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn't have time to...
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ejected from the orphanage that had been his home, a despairing boy with no prospects in life named Atsushi Nakajima rescues a peculiar man from a suicide attempt-- Osamu Dazai. It turns out that Dazai is part of an armed-detective agency staffed by individuals whose supernatural powers take on a literary bent! When Nakajima is engaged by Dazai and his associate Kunikida to hunt down a man-eating tiger terrorizing the region, little does [he] suspect...
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Meet your new favorite food critics: a chubby wolf named Mita Jiro and a ripped tiger named Yanagi Kagetora. Kagetora used to eat to live, but that changed when he met Jiro--who lives to eat! Jiro is more than happy to help his striped friend explore the restaurants and delicacies tucked within their city, and he enjoys all their finds with great relish. There's nothing better than a hot meal to bring two (animal) people together in this deliciously...
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jiro, the "Ramen Wolf," is devoted to his appetite. Seeing how happily he eats his meals, those around him cannot help but be happy as well. Even Kagetora, who was in mental agony when they first met, slowly but surely has started putting his feelings into words. He remains estranged from his brother, but as he spends more time dining out with Jiro, Kagetora's complex feelings for his brother gradually become clearer. In the second installment of...
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