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When You Trap a TigerTae Keller
When You Trap a Tiger
by Tae Keller
Moving in with her sick grandmother, Lily meets a tiger from her halmoni's Korean stories, who offers her a bargain she is not sure she should take.
A story about children, families and magical creatures, epic and moving in tone. We would put it with children of 9–12, and at a reading age of about 10 for reading alone.
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- Serious illness
- A death or grief
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