Paul Ruben
1) Life of Pi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched...
3) The lemur
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable having given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. When a shifty young researcher whom he calls 'The Lemur, " turns up some unflattering information about the family, Glass's whole easy existence is threatened.