The Tiger Rising

The Tiger Rising

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image_caption=|author=Kate DiCamillo|illustrator=|cover_artist=Chris Sheban|country=United States|language=English|series=|subject=|genre=|publisher=Candlewick Press|release_date=2001|media_type=|pages=|Lisbon's =ISBN0-7636-0911-0|preceded_by=Because of Winn-Dixie|followed_by=The Tale of Despereaux

"The Tiger Rising" is a 2001 children's book written by Newbery Medal winning author Kate DiCamillo. It is about a 12-year old boy named Rob Horton who finds a caged tiger in the middle of the woods near his home. The book was a National Book Award Finalist.

Plot

Walking through the misty Flordia woods one morning, young Rob Horton discovers a large and very real tiger in a cage. On the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, and begins to understand that some things - like memories, and heartache, and tigers - can't be locked up forever.


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