This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2001 by Kate DiCamillo
Cover illustration copyright © 2015 by Stephen Walton

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First electronic edition 2009

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

DiCamillo, Kate.
The tiger rising / Kate DiCamillo. — 1st ed.
p.   cm.
Summary: Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

[1. Tigers — Fiction. 2. Animals — Treatment — Fiction. 3. Wood carving — Fiction. 4. Friendship — Fiction. 5. Florida — Fiction.]   I. Title.
PZ7.D54156  Ti  2001
[Fic] — dc21     99-088635

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