The Tiger Rising
by Kate DiCamillo
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9780807288702,
Audio Cassette,
Listening Library,
2001
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9780307284242,
Digital,
Listening Library,
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9780307284235,
Compact Disc,
Listening Library,
2006
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9780763618988,
Paperback,
Candlewick Pr,
2002
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9780613669245,
Prebinding,
Bt Bound,
2003
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"[N]othing short of perfect. In seamless prose dripping with something of the exotic DiCamillo deftly pivots from isolation to intimacy, from resignation to hope, leaving in her wake a trail of delicate, finely conceived characters who linger long after the narrative's grave and powerful conclusion."
Excerpt
That morning, after he discovered the tiger, Rob went and stood under the Kentucky Star Motel sign and waited for the school bus just like it was any other day. The Kentucky Star sign was composed of a yellow neon star that rose and fell over a piece of blue neon in the shape of the state of Kentucky. Rob liked the sign; he harbored a dim but abiding notion that it would bring him good luck.
Finding the tiger had been luck, he knew that. He had been out in the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel, way out in the woods, not really looking for anything, just wandering, hoping that maybe he would get lost or get eaten by a bear and not have to go to school ever again. That's when he saw the old Beauchamp gas station building, all boarded up and tumbling down; next to it; there was a cage, and inside the cage, unbelievably, there was a tiger--a real-life, very large tiger pacing back and forth. He was orange and gold and so bright, it was like staring at the sun itself, angry and trapped in a cage.
Synopses
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.
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