The Tiger Rising is a children book by two-time Newbery Award-medalist, Kate DiCamillo. Published in 2001, The Tiger Rising is DiCamillo’s second book and was a National Book Award Finalist. Because the death of his mother, Rob Horton packs his clothes. When he and his father move to Lister, Florida Rob found a caged tiger in the woods and he got the friendship with an angry girl named Sistine.
Sistine begin to open his emotional suitcase. When their friendship grows, Rob and Sistine got a difficult decision to uncage the tiger or leave it caged. And they choose to uncage the tiger. The authors centered on his feelings and memories. She wrote in with a warm, smooth with simple but emotionally-good narrative. DiCamillo wrote about the complicated friendship.
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