Kate DiCamillo is the wonderful author who brought us Because of Winn Dixie, a Newbery Honor book. But did you know that she's written a bunch of other books? We have five in our library: The Tale of the Despereaux (the 2004 Newbery Winner), Mercy Watson to the Rescue (an easy fiction book), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and the book I want to discuss today, The Tiger Rising.
The Tiger Rising is a young adult book about a a boy who has recently lost his mother to cancer and has moved with his father to a new town in Florida. The boy, Rob, has a difficult time in the new school, dealing with bullies and adults who look the other way, but things begin to get better when he discovers a caged tiger and makes friends with another new student, Sistine. Her plan to free the tiger helps Ben work through his repressed sadness about his mother, and confront his father's inability to discuss his late wife. In its spare 116 pages, the book has beautifully described characters such as Rob's father, a "prophetess," Willie Mae, and his father's boss, Beauchamp.
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