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2005
(first published 1981)
by Macmillan Children's Books
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Paperback, 217 pages
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0330398121
(isbn13: 9780330398121)
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Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father’s death during a holdup of hi...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
People who likes reading emotional books
Title: Tiger Eyes
Author: Judy Blume
# of Pages: 217
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Cost: $5.99
ISBN 0-440-98469-6
Ever wondered how it feels like to lose a member of your family? In this book, Blume decribes a girl named Davey and how she managed to get on with her life after a critical incident that just occured. That day, Davey and Hugh, her boyfriend was at the backyard of her father's store making out. All of a sudden, they hear gunshots. It all happen...more
Author: Judy Blume
# of Pages: 217
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Cost: $5.99
ISBN 0-440-98469-6
Ever wondered how it feels like to lose a member of your family? In this book, Blume decribes a girl named Davey and how she managed to get on with her life after a critical incident that just occured. That day, Davey and Hugh, her boyfriend was at the backyard of her father's store making out. All of a sudden, they hear gunshots. It all happen...more
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Read in October, 2008
I saw my classmate, Polly reading this book in class and she recommended it to me.
This book is about Davey, a teenage girl who is going through the death of her father. Her father was at his store when a robber shot him 4 times to his death. Davey is depressed and she never leaves her room. She reaches a point where she doesn't even shower in weeks and that is when they made a decision. Her family, mother and brother, along with Davey went to live with their father's sister and husband in New...more
This book is about Davey, a teenage girl who is going through the death of her father. Her father was at his store when a robber shot him 4 times to his death. Davey is depressed and she never leaves her room. She reaches a point where she doesn't even shower in weeks and that is when they made a decision. Her family, mother and brother, along with Davey went to live with their father's sister and husband in New...more
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The Book I read was Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume. This book is an old favorite of mine, that I decided to re-read. I first read this book when I was about eleven years old, and decided to re-read it because I saw it in my nightstand table, when I was looking for a book I owed the school. The book takes place in New Jersey, where the main character fifteen year old Davey Wexler's father is murdered in Atlantic City, in a store that he works in. After her father is murdered Davey deals with the death ...more
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Read in November, 2007
This book was sad but interesting. Tiger, who's father had just died from a murder went to New Mexico to cool off from the death of his father. In there, she had a hard time adjusting to a new environment. I can relate to this because I've been to somewhere new that I wasn't used to. But I had to keep trying in order to adjust to my environment. Tiger had a friends called Wolf. It is kind of funny because their names are from wild animals. They are a weird couple at first because Tiger thou...more
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i heard about this book from my friend in another class. The cover looked interesting so I decided to read it too. I don't think this book is for everyone. It is about this girl named Davey dealing with her father's death. Her father got shot like 4 times. I feel bad for the girl because I wouldn't know what i would do if someone shot my father. The girl was all depressed to a point where she won't even take a shower. I think that's digusting, if people don't take a shower, even though she is de...more
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I read this because it takes place where I grew up. The story about Davey is fine, pure Judy Blume. But I was more interested to see how she portrayed the town. She did so pretty well, she got a couple of things wrong, and she took some license with a couple of things, and that's fine. I feel however that she portrayed Los Alamos people as being afraid of the outside world, not sure how I feel about that.
Tiger eyes is another great book written by Judy Blume. The story had nicely written to define the hardness of dealing with lost and death. Davey the protagonist’s father died during a rubbery in their shop, where the robbers shot him. Davey’s mother brought Davey and her little brother Jason to Los Alamos, where their aunt Bitsy and Uncle Walter lives. Davey’s mother fell apart and Davey felt like she was taking care of her mother more then she got take cared of. During her familyâ...more
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Read in July, 2008
Davey's life is changed forever the night her father is shot four times and killed in a robbery. Her life, and the lives of her mother and younger brother, fall apart. None of them do very well coping and it is decided that they will take a two-week vacation to New Mexico to visit Davey's father's sister and her husband. Davey is fine with this until she realizes that the vacation is becoming more permanent. She feels so lost and her mother is unreachable. Davey doesn't know how she's going to m...more
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It seems as though this book is really depressing and lost because of the death of the protagnist's father. I understand that a lost in the family will really affect the family, tearing it apart piece by piece the first few months. I've had many friends that lost their fathers or their parents are separated. They come to me and told me their stories. Anything that reminds them of the person, flashsback everything, and there's no replacements. No one can replace the same person.
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Read in November, 2007
I really liked this book. It was sad and interseting at the same time. Daveys father died because he got shot and now Davey sleps with a butter knife under her pillow. It is sad that she fells scared sleeping in her own house because she is scared. Also she always stays in bed and usulayy doesnt shower. This al lchanged when her parents went up to New Mexico to live with their aunt and uncle for a while. There she gets her life together and so does her mom. She gets the nickname Tiger by Wolg be...more
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Read in January, 2008
First read in 1982/83, when I scrawled "Judy Blume is the best author in the whole world!" on the inside flap. Only Judy Blume would murder the father and then send the whole family to Los Alamos. This book sparked my lifelong obsession with Los Alamos. And with quiet CalTech guys named Wolf. I was surprised by the amount of history that Blume sprinkles throughout. It's a very sophisticated book and I'm continually impressed with Davey's growth.
This is also some of my favorite 1970/...more
This is also some of my favorite 1970/...more
Read in January, 1995
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After reading this book, i find myself really connected to the book because its something thats about adapting to the environment. I remeber the first time i came to America i wasnt used to the lives in here but as times goes by i got used to it. This book was about how Tiger, who's father had just died from a murder and from there she went to New Mexico to get off the mind of his fathers death. From there he met a friend there who she called him Wolf they became close friends. He left her when ...more
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I probably read this book 10 times when I was around middle-school age. So I decided to read it again a few months ago, and it was just as good as I remembered. It's pretty short -- I think I finished it in three sittings. It's meant for young adults but it's so well written that you don't notice that. I always wanted to be Davey -- she was so easy to relate to, even though my situation was/is nothing like hers. She lost her father, and her family moved to Los Alamos. So she had to make new frie...more
OK, so I know this is Judy Blume...but this book meant so, so much to me growing up. It still remains one of my all-time favorites and I own a copy of the old, original hard cover just like the one I used to borrow from the Upshur County library. It gives me a tingle, that present tense narration, and I cannot help but feel some kind of strange foreshadowing because, just like Davy lost her father and was forced to watch him die, I lost my mother and was forced to watch her die. I don't care ...more
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i must've read this 18-20 times as a teenager. this is the perfect segue from her young-adult books like "are you there god..." and "tales of a fourth grade nothing" to the adult/graphic sex of blume's "forever" and "wifey."
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One of Judy Blume's more mature books. It deals with the death of the main character's father during a robbery of the grocery store they ran. She, her mother and sibling wind up moving to New Mexico.
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Davey's father is killed in a robbery at his store in Atlantic City. Her mother decides to take her and her little brother to live with her father's sister and brother-in-law in New Mexico for the year. Davey is miserable, buys a pair of hiking boots, hangs out in a Canyon and meets a hot guy named Wolf. This was my favorite book when I was eleven. I checked it out of my school library at least once a month and read it while listening to my Wilson Phillips cassette tape over and over. I bou...more
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My first Judy Blume book Are You There God, It's Me Margaret. I totally loved it and read every single book she wrote. Just marking this for my running total.
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone of any age.
I read this book on the advice of a very close friend. I feel its a shame that its aimed and sold in the teenagers section because it targets the same issues you can go through at any age and its writtten in language you can appreciate at any age. It tells the story of a young girls who goes on a break with her family after her father is killed, to get away from everything. She has to struggle with her over-protective family when all she wants is to be alone, and watch her mother suffer a brea...more
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