Las Animas - Bent County Library District

"In one morning, Rob Horton discovers a tiger in a cage and a girl who speaks her mind. It's then that he begins to understand that some things - like memories, and heartache, and tigers - can't be locked up forever" -- back cover.

Every year, a boy and his family go camping at Mountain Pond. Usually, they see things like an eagle fishing for his dinner, a salamander with red spots on its back, and chipmunks that come to steal food while the family sits by the campfire. But this year is different. This year, the boy is going into first grade, and his mother is encouraging him to do things on his own, just like his older brother. And the most different thing of all... this year,...

Introduces Daniel Tiger and his friends, including Katerina, O, Prince Wednesday, and Miss Elaina, and describes what each can do.

Contains facts about lions and tigers, comparing such aspects as their sizes, brain structure, and abilities.

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...

When the Critterzens visit the Palace Pets, they are teamed up to compete in a clue contest, but Sultan the tiger is worried he will be slowed down by Miss Sophia the sloth.

"A teddy bear has fallen into the ocean, but there were witnesses. And they want the teddy bear. Join Sharkee and his sassy sidekick as they search for the bear, stopping to ask all sorts of marine animals along the way with varying degrees of silliness"--Amazon.com.

Presents information about tigers, including where they live, what they are like, how they behave, what they eat, how they raise young, and the things that threaten them as a species.

All the animals work to set up a surprise without waking up Tiger.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces tigers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--