Publication Date: March 2001
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 590L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level T
Interest Level: Grades 5-7
Major Awards: National Book Award finalist 2001
Number of Pages: 144 pages
Approximate Word Count: 43,920 words -- The average reader will spend 2 hours and 55 minutes reading The Tiger Rising at 250 words per minute.*
Audible Book Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
Book Themes: Animal Rights, Friendship, Relationships, Power of Letting Go
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Setting: in and around a motel (Kentucky Star Motel) in Lister, Florida
Important Quote:
Her words sounded the way all those things made him feel, as if the world, the real world, had been punched through, so that he could see something wonderful and dazzling on the other side of it.
First Line: That morning, after he discovered the tiger, Rob went and stood under the Kentucky Star Motel sign and waited for the school bus just like it was any other day.
Point of View: Third Person
*Estimate from Reading Length
