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Life of Pi : a novel /

by Martel, Yann, Published by : Vintage Canada, (Toronto :) Physical details: xi, 356 p. ; 21 cm ISBN:0676973779; 9780676973778.
Subject(s): Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction. | Tigers -- Fiction. | Human-animal relationships -- Fiction. | Pacific Ocean -- Fiction. | Authors, Canadian. | Canadian fiction. | FICTION / Sea Stories. | FICTION / Action & Adventure.
Year: 2001 Item type: Print List(s) this item appears in: Books With Movie Versions
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Fiction 		Fiction F MAR (Browse shelf (Opens below)) Copy: 1 Available 2012-5405

Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

Grades 9 - 12
RL: 7.2
Lexile Measure®: 830L

Man Booker Prize, 2002.

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction, 2003

Governor General's Literary Award Nominee, 2001

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