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1) Life of Pi
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"Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. 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,...
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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.
7) Fortune
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In long ago Persia a poor young man, following the advice of his betrothed, goes to the city to seek his fortune and finds it in an unexpected way.
11) Tiger and turtle
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When a tiger and a turtle both want a flower that has fallen to the ground, they argue over it until a fight breaks out between them.
12) Roar!
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Bindi, Robert and Terri Irwin are on their way to Sumatra to collect three gorgeous tiger cubs to take back to the Australia zoo.
16) Tiger
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When the villagers hire a famous hunter to kill the tiger rumored to live in the woods, only one young boy wishes to protect the animal; and, in fact, the hunter knows more than one way to shoot a tiger.
17) Tiger, tiger
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Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum.
20) The copycat
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Princess Itty likes her new classmate Tessa Tiger, but becomes frustrated and confused as Tessa begins to copy everything Itty says and does.