The Tiger Rising
(a Middle-grade Novel About Grief, Courage, Friendship, and Finding Your Voice - for Kids Ages 9-11 in Grades 5-6)
Candlewick Press · Print & ebook · December 8, 2015
A National Book Award finalist by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo.
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- Who it’s for
- A misty-woods encounter opens a tender story about friendship, heartache, and what cannot stay hidden.
- Themes
- Friendship, Grief and heartache, Courage
- Genres
- Big Cats, Friendship, Loss & Grief
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A National Book Award finalist by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his.
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As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever. Featuring a cover illustration by Stephen Walton.
Feelings Uncaged
A misty-woods encounter opens a tender story about friendship, heartache, and what cannot stay hidden.
Come here for
- A real tiger and an unexpected friendship
- Two children with very different ways of showing feeling
Expect
- A thoughtful middle-grade story about memory and heartache
- Quiet courage as trust grows
Where it sits
| Friendship | 78% |
|---|---|
| Loss & Grief | 73% |
| Big Cats | 56% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Big Cats
- Parent-Child Stories
- New Experiences
- Authors
- Kate DiCamillo
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- December 8, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Friendship · Grief and heartache · Courage
- Reading lane
- Big Cats