Title: the tiger rising (Keywords) and Author: dicamillo (Keywords)

Grief, loneliness and bullying are dealt with in this sensitive book. Rob's mum has recently died and with no-one to talk to he keeps his worries to himself. His life begins to change when he finds a caged tiger and decides to set it free.

"Crying ain't going to bring her back," Rob's dad says. So Rob fills a suitcase in his mind with all his forbidden thoughts - the rash on his legs, the bullies at school - and keeps it tight shut. But when he finds a caged tiger deep in the woods, his whole life begins to change. That same day he...

Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to find a tiger–a real-life, very large tiger–locked 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 ...