Lamar Public Library

A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.

It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father. There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player...

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.

In Cheetahs, beginning readers will learn about cheetahs and their cubs. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they are introduced to cheetahs' appearance, diet, behaviors, and habitats. A picture diagram labels cheetahs' body parts, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about cheetahs online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites....

In Leopards, beginning readers will learn about leopards and their cubs. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they are introduced to leopards' appearance, diet, behaviors, and habitats. A picture diagram labels leopards' body parts, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about leopards online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites....

Discusses the physical description, habits, behavior, and future of of various kinds of tigers, using numerous pictures.

Introduces the cheetah, describing its physical features, habitat, life cycle, and hunting behavior.

Which dangerous animals would win in a fight? Find out in this awesome bind-up of five books from the Who Would Win? series. The collection features a range of mammals, sea creatures, insects, and dinosaurs to satisfy all kinds of animal fans.

Martel's novel tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. Life of Pi brings together many themes including...