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Booklogging: Tiger Rising
Mar. 17th, 2011 03:09 pmI've been reading a series of YA novels trying to find something appropriate for my kids to read in lit circles.
I read this because it has a lower Lexile score than Edward Tulane, but a friend told me it was really good.
This book feels like a kick to the gut. It's perfectly age appropriate for 4th-6th graders and it's about loss - the kind of deep loss that only children can feel. It's a terrific look at most kids worst nightmares.
I read this a couple of months after I read Bridge to Terabithia and I realized that it's got a similar premise: outcast poor boy becomes friends with upper class artsy, educated girl. However Tiger Rising is more like the darker contrast of BtT. It's about a bullied, outcast boy who cannot even say his mother's name and a violent, aggressive girl who is set on not belonging. It kind of felt like Kate DiCamillo saying an incredibly eloquent, "Fuck you" to the fantasy inherent in BTT.
I read this because it has a lower Lexile score than Edward Tulane, but a friend told me it was really good.
This book feels like a kick to the gut. It's perfectly age appropriate for 4th-6th graders and it's about loss - the kind of deep loss that only children can feel. It's a terrific look at most kids worst nightmares.
I read this a couple of months after I read Bridge to Terabithia and I realized that it's got a similar premise: outcast poor boy becomes friends with upper class artsy, educated girl. However Tiger Rising is more like the darker contrast of BtT. It's about a bullied, outcast boy who cannot even say his mother's name and a violent, aggressive girl who is set on not belonging. It kind of felt like Kate DiCamillo saying an incredibly eloquent, "Fuck you" to the fantasy inherent in BTT.
