Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will motivate students to read.

Please note: this a graded reader for students who are learning English and does not contain the original text but is an adapted version.

What happens when a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving only one lifeboat of survivors?

And what happens if those survivors are a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker?

Sixteen-year-old Pi ‘Piscine’ Patel is about to find out …

Adapted from the international best-seller by Yann Martel