A talking tiger approaches a family during their annual end-of-summer camping trip and is befriended by the youngest, a boy who does not feel ready for first grade.

Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are 'pure reading pleasure' (Booklist). The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...

A collection of comic strips following the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. Most people who write comic dialogue for minors demonstrate surprisingly little feel for-or faith in-the original source material, that is, childhood, in all its unfettered and winsome glory. It is in this respect that Bill Watterson has proved as unusual as his feckless creations, Calvin and Hobbes. Watterson is the reporter who's gotten it right; childhood...

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, a wounded zebra, and Richard...

"A red rogue wind blows a wicked pirate captain close to the island left off the map of the world. He's searching for solid gold apples from the sea dragon's orchard beneath the waves. Betsy K. Glory and Mr. Tiger take to the air and dive deep to save all the sea dragon's treasures, including a very precious egg."-- Provided by publisher.

For the first time in her life, Selina Bruce isn't sure what tomorrow will bring. Impulsively she has left behind her lawyer fiance in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She is searching for the father she has never known, but what she finds is the unexpected truth about herself and the man she plans to marry.