The Tiger Rising

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Summary: Friendship Story
Review: I give this book The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo five stars. This book is about a boy named Rob. Rob lives in a small motel in Florida. He moved there with his dad after his mom died. Rob has a disease on his legs and everyone at school bullies him because of it. Then one day he's walking to the bus stop and he sees a real tiger trapped in a cage pacing back and forth. The same day he meets a girl named Sistine who is named after the Sistine Chapel. Read this exciting and tragic book to find out about the tiger, and Rob and Sistine's everlasting friendship!

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Summary: A Great Story
Review: I think the book, The Tiger Rising, should get five stars because it is an interesting book. It was about two kids named Rob and Sistine. Rob had a disease. The principal thought Rob's disease was contagious. He would have to stay home for a few days and have it heal up. The only problem is that his legs wouldn't heal up.
In order to avoid school, he went into the woods hoping he would get lost or eaten by a bear, that's when he found the tiger in a cage by an abandoned gas station. He told his friend, Sistine, about it. That's when the real story begins. So, when you buy this book and start reading it, you'll never want to set this book down until your done reading it.

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Summary: The Tiger Rising
Review: In the book The Tiger Rising a boy named Rob Horton is just getting adapted to the new changes that has been happening in his life. Rob has been lonely ever since he has moved to a new town and when his mom pasted away. All Rob really wants is a friend or two, but instead he keeps getting bullied.
I really liked this book because it was really about his friendship with a girl named Sistine Bailey. When Rob made a friend, Sistine was a good friend because they were always going on adventures and doing other things.
The author of this book wrote it with great detail. There is so much detail that it feels like I am with the characters. That is why detail is important in this book. By having detail it makes the characters come to life.
I recommend this book because it is every thing I said, and more. It has good friendships,adventures, great detail, and much more.

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Summary: AGAIN AND AGAIN
Review: Kate DiCamillo has done it again. Along the same lines as "Because of Winn-Dixie" this story gets deep into the heart of it's main character.

As a media specialist, I highly recommend ALL of DiCamillo's books. Buy them, check them out at a library, borrow them. Whatever you have to do...just read them. WONDERFUL!

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Summary: Tiger Rising
Review: Rob Horton, a young, brave boy who is about to find something amazing in his life. As he lives in the "Kentucky Star Motel" with his dad, and he finds a tiger in the back of the Motel. A new person comes to his scool, called Sistine, and they both become best friends. Together they go and visit the tiger after school everyday. Whenone day they let the tiger out of his cage and the tiger runs to the motel. When they hear screams and shoots of a gun they knew what happened. The best friends learn what its like to lose something close to them, and how to get through it.
"Tiger Rising" is a great book of family, bravery, and friendship. Dicamillo keeps you reading this book. Dicamilo also has you visualize whats happening in the book. I learned what it was like to lose something close to you. From this book I also learned what frindship really is.
"Tiger Rising" is an exciting, page-turning book. I would recomend this book to anyone who likes an exciting, page-turning book. Also to someone who like's when they can visualize whats happening in in the story. And a story with friendship and family.

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Summary: almost as good as the first one
Review: The book The Tiger Rising is an excellent book.It is about how this kid named Rob finds a tiger in a cage in the woods who meets someone and becomes best freinds.One of the friends wants to free the tiger. This book
is recommended for grades 3rd to 5th.The characters have a lot of emotion. The author's style makes the book more interesting.This book is good for people who like characters that are always changing their minds about something. The Tiger Rising has characters that are very willing to save something.This book's author has many books relating to The Tiger Rising.

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Summary: The Tiger Rising
Review: The Tiger Rising 11/21/02
By Kate DiCamillo

The Tiger Rising is a book about this boy named Rob and how he find this tiger in the woods and it changes his life. He lives in a motel called the Kentucky Star in Kentucky. Another thing is that this girl named Sistine Bailey also changes his life. When they meet each other she doesn't like him and makes fun of him but when they were going home she sat next to him and they got along. I also liked this book because the arthur writes in fist person which I like. Also it is only 116 pages so you can read it in a week.

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Summary: This Story Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Tiger Rising is a really GREAT book!!!! It's about this boy named Rob Horton who's mother died and now he and his dad live in a hotel called The Kentucky Star, even though the setting is in Florida. Rob and his father have no phone and eat Macaroni & Cheese every night. Rob has a diease in his legs that make them itch like CRAZY!!! Rob's only real friend isn't even a kid. The maid of the hotel, Willie May, is always telling Rob that the problem with his legs is that Rob never lets the saddness come out. She says it stays down at the bottom of him, down by his legs, and never gives it a chance to come out. Rob never cries. Ever since his mother died, Rob has never cried. He cried at his mother's funeral, but his father told him to suck it up, that there was no need in crying, that crying was for sissies. Ever since that unforgettable moment on that unforgettable day, Rob has imagined himself as a suitcase, locked up tight, never letting anything get out.
Rob gets picked on at school. The 2 bullies call hum "Diease Boy" and "Cootie Kid". He never stands up to them though. He just lets them tease him until they get tired and eventually leave. But one day a new girl gets on the bus. She was wearing a pink and frilly dress. No one at Rob's school wears pink and frilly dresses. When Rob next sees Sistine (the girl) her dress has a hint of blood on it, a torn shoulder puff, and a girl with a black eye and a few bruises wearing it.
Sitting on the bus after school that day, Sistine plops down next to Rob. She tells Rob about her father who is supposed to come and get her in a couple if weeks. She says she hates it in Florida. She says she hates her mother too. Then she notices Rob's legs. She asks Rob if it is contagious and, without waiting for a reply, rubs her hands violently up and down Rob's legs. Rob finally works up enogh courage to open his suitcase up a little peep and tell Sistine about the tiger he found caged up earlier that day. Sistine says they HAVE to set it free no sooner had the words come out of Rob's mouth. He's scared to lrt the tiger free because he knows it owned by the owner of the hotel and Rob doesn't want his dad to lose his job as all-around good-guy and handy man. Should Rob let the tiger go, in hopes of finding a new friend? Or stay a coward all his life?