- The Tiger Rising
Infobox Book|name=The Tiger Rising|title_orig=|translator=|
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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 authorKate 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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