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When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

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Book name: When You Trap a Tiger (2024)
Category: Middle Grade
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Pages: 297 pages
ISBN13: 1524715700
ISBN: 1524715700
Language: English
Publication data: Jan. 28, 2020, 8 a.m.
Newbery Medal Winner (2021)

Some stories refuse to stay bottled up...

When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal--return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni's health--Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice...and the courage to face a tiger.

About the author

Tae Keller

Tae Keller

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TAE KELLER is the Newbery award winning and New York Times bestselling author of When You Trap a Tiger and The Science of Breakable Things. She grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she subsisted on kimchi, purple rice, and stories. Now, she writes about biracial girls trying to find their voices, and lives in Seattle with her husband and a multitude of books.

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