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The Tiger Rising (Audio) - Community Reviews back

by Dylan Baker, Kate DiCamillo
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StaceyHH
StaceyHH rated it 14 years ago
The Tiger Rising is the story of two very sad and broken children, and how they are saved by a tiger, but not at all in the way you would expect. This story broke my heart. There's something about the way DiCamillo writes that touches my deepest emotions. I don't know if I can explain how or why, bu...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 15 years ago
This book was recommended to me due to my involvement in the Free Tony the Tiger project.In this book, Rob Horton and his widowed father are living in a motel in a tiny Florida town. In the woods behind the hotel, Rob finds a tiger livin in a cage. He and his friend Sistine ("Like the chapel") Bai...
WinterRose
WinterRose rated it 15 years ago
This one was okay. Not great, but not horrible either. DiCamillo's writing is so different in this one than the other two books and I missed her Voice from the other two I read. Her Voice seemed to remind me more of Katherine Patterson in this book.The characters are interesting and very believable....
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 21 years ago
I don't know why this book didn't work for me, while Because of Winn-Dixie so surely did. It's a similar story: troubled child finds love with a critter and becomes a real member of society. I know, that's the plot for half the children's books ever written. Still, it works in general. But some...
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