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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
2) Tiger Lily
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily receives special protections from the spiritual forces of Neverland, but then she meets her tribe's most dangerous enemy--Peter Pan--and falls in love with him.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Carnegie Medal for Fiction - Shortlist
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
Formats
Description
"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he has inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. However, one day, a talking cat named Tiger appears and asks Rintaro to save books with him. Of course, "ask" is putting it politely -- Tiger is demanding Rintaro's help. The world is full of lonely books, left unread and unloved, and only Tiger and Rintaro can liberate them from their neglectful owners. And...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Does a tiger purr? Could it win a marathon? And would it make a good pet? Using a helpful Q&A format, Do Tigers Stay Up Late? tells children all they ever wanted to know about these magnificent creatures, from what they weigh to whether they swim. Filled with stunning photographs and cool information, this book is sure to become a favorite of every young animal lover."-- provided by publisher.
9) Tiger, tiger
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 22
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ellie is paired up with a classmate, Paul, on a special dance number for the school play. But right from the start, Paul gives her the cold shoulder! Will Ellie and Paul be able to patch things up in time to take the stage together? Meanwhile, Marion, Ellie, Liz, and Amy rescue an adorable kitten named Tiger...but he can't stop causing mischief in the Critter Club barn! Can the girls team up to help Tiger--and find him a new home?"--Amazon.com.
11) The palace tiger
Author
Series
Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
16) Tiger honor
Author
Series
Thousand worlds volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old nonbinary tiger spirit Sebin must decide where their loyalties lie when their traitorous uncle hijacks the battle cruiser that happens to be Sebin's first assignment in the Cadet Program.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When Hamra steals a magical fruit from a tiger hoping to cure her grandmother, she must repay her debt to the tiger by going on an extraordinary journey with him to make him human again"--
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Determined to protect Neverland by stopping two devious pirates from getting their hands on a mysterious, powerful treasure, Tiger Lily will need to become the brave leader she's always wanted to be"--
"Tiger Lily and her community, the Indigenous people of Neverland, possess a unique ability: they can choose to grow up. But for now, Tiger Lily is enjoying being thirteen, spending time with her grandmother and exploring alongside her horse and her...
Author
Series
Sally Lockhart quartet volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.
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