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Staff Reviews
A down-and-out, shy boy with internalized trauma meets confident, spunky girl with externalizing trauma, AND a caged tiger allegory? C'mon now. I wish I had written it. Reads like a timeless parable with so many deep truths. I think we can all see ourselves in Rob and Sistine---kid or full-grown anxious adult (me).
— Marion
Description
The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in paperback 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. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things - like memories, and heartaches, and tigers - can t be locked up forever.
About the Author
Kate DiCamillo says of THE TIGER RISING, "Rob Horton first showed up in a short story I was writing. I finished the story, but apparently Rob wasn t finished with me. He hung around for weeks afterward, haunting the other stories I was working on. Finally, I said to him, What in the world do you want? And he said, I know where there s a tiger. Like Sistine, I said one word back to him, Where? THE TIGER RISING is how Rob Horton answered me."
