Lionboy
Subtitle: The Chase
Publisher: Dial
Published: September 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780803729841
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction; Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic; Fiction; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Lions; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Kidnapping; Human-animal communication; Action & Adventure - General; Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure; Animals - Lions  Tigers  Leopards  etc.; Voyages and travels
First sentence: It is a curious thing for a boy to be stuck on a train in an Alpine snowstorm, in a bathroom with six homesick lions and a huge unidentified saber-toothed creature.