The Tiger Rising
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Desc: The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of Because of Winn-Dixie—now in paperback 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.