num_pages: 128
description: "A lush, exotic little gem—this writer’s a keeper." - Karen Hesse, Newbery Medal-winning author of Out of Dust .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 heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever.
language: English
title: The Tiger Rising
titlecomplete: The Tiger Rising
characters: Rob, Sistine
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Animals, Middle Grade, Fantasy, School
ratings_count: 28574
places: Florida
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Hea Lasteraamat
publisher: Candlewick Press