Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)
Publisher
Sterling
Publication Year
2011
ISBN
9781402784033
Pages
402 pages
Genre
fantasy
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
800L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Family member death; Foster care; Interracial; death of parents; foster teenager; foster home; foster parents; foster family; interracial relationship
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Indian / White
Family Formation
foster mother and father
Awards
Parents' Choice Award, 2011, Recommended, Fiction
Soaring Eagle Book Award, 2013-2014, Winner
Keywords
blessing and curse; immortality; circus; India; tiger; love; quest; monsters
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Houck, Collen, "Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)" (2011). Diverse Families. 547.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/547