Billy, unimpressed with everything his father does with him, always responds "whatever," until the world's "hungriest" tiger comes along and gets his attention.

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.

Gisselda and Bop, true children of the circus, stand up to the snarling tiger on the terrible day that the whole performance goes wrong.

Riley travels with his Cousin Alice, Aunt Martha, and Uncle Max to the Terai region of Nepal and India to research the dwindling tiger population.

"The tiger has a plan to escape from the zoo and find his real home -- all he needs is some help from his best friend, the cat"--

"Meet Orq. He cave boy. Meet Woma. He woolly mammoth. Orq love Woma. A lot. He want pet. Orq's mother say Woma shed. And smell. And not housetrained. Yuck. Woma not allowed in cave. But Orq has plan. Kind of."

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...

Penelope Rex gets a saber-toothed tiger for her first pet, but find 'Mittens' a lot to handle.