The Tiger Rising. Kate DiCamillo. (2001). 128p. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.
Awards and Honors: National Book Award Finalist
Review:
Twelve-year-old Rob Horton has recently lost his mother to cancer and finds himself living with his father in an old motel, The Kentucky Star, in rural central Florida. Both Rob and his father have learned to push down their grief over the loss of the central figure in their lives. Rob's father tries to pretend she never existed, while Rob's grief manifests itself in a persistent rash on his legs, which alienates him even more from his classmates. In the span of a week, Rob experiences two life changing events: he meets a new girl named Sistine, another outcast in his school, and he finds a tiger locked in a cage in the woods behind the Kentucky Star. Rob soon finds himself the reticent caretaker of the tiger, and Sistine pushes him to make a fateful decision that allows Rob and his father to begin the healing process.
Twelve-year-old Rob Horton has recently lost his mother to cancer and finds himself living with his father in an old motel, The Kentucky Star, in rural central Florida. Both Rob and his father have learned to push down their grief over the loss of the central figure in their lives. Rob's father tries to pretend she never existed, while Rob's grief manifests itself in a persistent rash on his legs, which alienates him even more from his classmates. In the span of a week, Rob experiences two life changing events: he meets a new girl named Sistine, another outcast in his school, and he finds a tiger locked in a cage in the woods behind the Kentucky Star. Rob soon finds himself the reticent caretaker of the tiger, and Sistine pushes him to make a fateful decision that allows Rob and his father to begin the healing process.
Opinion:
A short, but powerfully emotional book, The Tiger Rising is a heavily symbolic story that won't appeal to everyone. The death of the tiger may disturb some younger readers, while the ending seems a bit short on resolution.
Ideas:A short, but powerfully emotional book, The Tiger Rising is a heavily symbolic story that won't appeal to everyone. The death of the tiger may disturb some younger readers, while the ending seems a bit short on resolution.
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