A Classroom Review | The Tiger Rising

Quality Literature | The Tiger Rising | Kate Dicamillo

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	• The Tiger Rising Kate Dicamillo Listening Library (Audio), 2006 average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The wonderfull book

This book is about this boy robert has like a sickness on his leg. Then a new girl comes to school her name is sinstine.then one day the princaple
said that you cant come to school the moms say that the sickness is contageous.He is so happy he takes the note then buts it in his back pocket.Then one day he told Sinstine about the tiger he had found in a cage.Sinstine told robert to let him go because the owner told him to feed the tiger.Then one day he let the tiger go. Thats all I want to tell you.

A Classroom Review

As an elementary school teacher, my students and I have truly enjoyed this book. The plot, characters, and setting are all so deep and interesting. My female students liked this book the best. I have used it in read alouds, small groups, and also for individual instruction times. My 4th graders and I give it 2 thumbs up!

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Quality Literature

I started off by reading this little jewel to my second grade daughter. Before long, I found myself reading this by myself until the very end. I simply could not put it down! The next day I purchased book group copies for my eighth grade classroom. Di Camillo's writing is eloquent and engaging and her characters leap off the page as you find yourself pulled into their struggles. The Tiger Rising was simply magical. I strongly recommend it for parents, teachers and students who are invested in reading quality literature.

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Straight up without the fluff

I have to hand it to Kate DiCamillo for this one. After reading Because of Winn-Dixie I was expecting much of the same "fluff" that I found DiCamillo using to make Winn-Dixie the so called "perfect kids book." Nothing bad ever seems to happen, and if it does - fear not - it gets resolved and wrapped up with a neat little bow a few pages later . . . Welcome to the land of Make Believe (or California, whatever).

Much to my pleasant surprise, Tiger Rising is nothing like it's predecessor. Instead of "feel-good fluff," DiCamillo develops realistic emotions and experiences of two young distraught children who slowly (and intensely at times) find themselves reaching out to one another.

The characters have flaws, baggage (enough for a 777), and pure raw emotion that seems to reach out of the page and smack you in the face. DiCamillo isn't afraid to show the reader how this affects the characters, often quite painfully.

This isn't a fairytale, it's real life. There is a beautifully orchestrated climax and a conclusion of sorts - one, I found, that left me with a deepened sense of caring for the characters as many loose ends are still left untied and I was left to seriously contemplate how these experiences would impact their lives.

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From the best-selling author of Because of Winn-Dixie comes the moving story of an eleven-year-old-boy, Rob Horton, who finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the hotel where he lives with his father. With the help of his new friend, Sistine Bailey, Rob must decide what to do with his discovery and at the same time come to terms with his past.