Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Piscine Molitor Patel, otherwise known as Pi, lives in Pondicherry, where his father runs and owns the city’s zoo. When he is sixteen, his parents decide to emigrate to Canada, taking their large family with them, but tragedy strikes when the cargo ship carrying them sinks during a terrible storm. One solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. In it are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger. Some light shelf...