Tears of a Tiger

Books | Young Adult Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black

4.4

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Sharon M. Draper

Andy tackles his guilt and grief in the first book of Sharon M. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy.Tigers don’t cry—or do they? After the death of his longtime friend and fellow Hazelwood Tiger in a car accident, Andy, the driver, blames himself and cannot get past his guilt and pain. While his other friends have managed to work through their grief and move on, Andy allows death to become the focus of his life. In the months that follow the accident, the lives of Andy and his friends are traced through a series of letters, articles, homework assignments, and dialogues, and it becomes clear that Tigers do indeed need to cry.

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Author

Sharon M. Draper

Pages

192

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

2006-02-01

ISBN

1416928316 9781416928317

Ratings

Google: 4.5

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"This might be insensitive to what the book is about but time and my best friend in highschool used to call this Tears Of A Tigger "

Ricky Lopez

"Read this in middle school but one of the first books I ever became attached too still one of my favorites "

Nicole MacDonald

"Great book shins light on people who have been in accidents and lose important people in their lives also not to long "

Gorgene Fernandez

"I read this book back in like 2009 but I loved it at that point."

Mary Lynn Gilbert

"I don't like how the main character wasn't thinking of anyone else. The notes at the end were sad. I'm glad this is a series because it ended so abruptly."

your mom has

"Read in high school and hooked me on reading."

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Claudia Aguirre

"It kept my attention very well and gave me lots of empathy, the beginning of a series that's One of the best"

calen codes

"I’m reading at the moment a poetry book milk and honey by rupi kaur "

Lady Espinoza

"I read this in middle school and highschool this book literally made me cry "

Queen famous

"*4.75. yeah, this was really, really good. It was as if I could actually feel the characters’ feelings come right out of the pages. And I love a book that makes me think, like honestly. I feel like this book does a good job of portraying what could happen if you do drunk drive, and the aftermath of it. The author did an amazing job of writing pain, expressing the characters’ pain over the conflicts that happened. I love when an author takes real-life situations and writes what-ifs. This was definitely a nice book to reflect on."