By: Kate DiCamillo Nick White THE TIGER RISING By: Kate DiCamillo Nick White

The main characters were This story took place… (setting) Rob Sistine Beauchamp Mr. Horton Willie May The Tiger Star Motel Tigers Cage Bus Principal’s Office

I thought the biggest problem was: The problem was solved when There was a tiger in a cage. I think that was the biggest problem in the story because the tiger should be free to live it’s life. Rob let the tiger out with the key Beauchamp gave him.

At the beginning… On an any old average day while Rob was standing at the bus stop, he looked at the old Beauchamp gas station all boarded up, and falling apart, behind it there was a cage and amazingly, there was a tiger. A big real-life tiger. Rob started saying to himself Tiger-Tiger-Tiger. Six months before, Rob’s mom had died, and then when Rob got on the bus, there sat Billy and Norton Threemonger waiting for him.

Then, Billy and Norton started hurting Rob, but it didn’t bug him because he was in a bad mood. While they were busy the bus stopped, a girl walked on the bus. Her name was Sistine. She was wearing a pink lacy dress. When they got off the bus in class Sistine introduced herself. When she finished, Rob’s teacher asked kindly for him to go to the principal’s office. They talked for a couple minutes and to Rob’s knowledge that conversation had freed Rob from school!

Next, When Rob got home he got out a piece of wood and a knife and started carving the tiger. Then, when he was done carving he looked down and saw that he was carving Sistine. A couple days later Rob went back to the cage with Beauchamp and he gave the responsibility of the tiger to Rob. He had the key he could let it go just like Sistine wanted.

At the end, The next day Rob and Sistine went down to the cage and let it go. It ran away, and then a Gun shot went off! GAME OVER.

The best part of the story was when They let the tiger go!

I didn’t like When the tiger died.