AUTHOR: Kate DiCamillo
STARTED: April 21, 2012
FINISHED: April 21, 2012
PAGES: 116
GENRE: Juvenile
FIRST SENTENCE: That morning, after he discovered the tiger, Rob went and stood under the Kentucky Star motel sign and waited for the school bus just like it was any other day.
SUMMARY: [From Barnes and Noble ] 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.
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving,
is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a
caged tiger.
THOUGHTS: This book, like all of DiCamillo's works, was quaint, ole-timey, and everything you want a kids book to be. The writing was lyrical without being excessive, the characters were well developed, and the story compelling. I even teared up a bit at the end.
DiCamillo is, hands down, one of my favorite children's authors writing today. You can't not like her books.
RATING: 7/10 [Good]
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