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When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

17 reviews

pattyreader's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A beautiful story about a family who move to another state to care for the grandmother. Family traditions, love and storytelling help the protagonist navigate the complex issues facing the family .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Car accident, Death of parent, Racism, Vomit, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Terminal illness, Car accident, Death, Grief, and Dementia

Minor: Death of parent

elinordashwood's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cancer and Terminal illness

Minor: Death of parent and Car accident

kaneli's review

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Vomit, Car accident, and Terminal illness

Minor: Racism and Car accident

sarah984's review against another edition

hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This book was fantastic, it really surprised me. I loved the writing, and the plot deftly handled subject matter like loss of a family member, personal identity and intergenerational trauma. The characters were super charming, and the way mythology tied into the story was well done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, Dementia, and Vomit

Minor: Abandonment and Medical content

catladyreads's review

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Death of parent and Car accident

annegoodreads's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 In When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller a Grandmother (halmoni)passes on the craft of storytelling.  Lily is an 8-year-old Korean American.  Her Mom moves Lily and her teen sister Sam from California to Washington to halmoni’s house on the hill.  The Mom doesn’t tell Sam and Lily they are moving in with halmoni because she has brain cancer and is dying.  Lily starts seeing a magical tiger straight out of halmoni's Korean folktales.  Lily goes to the library for information on Korean folklore and tigers.  There she meets a wonderful librarian Joe.  Another library staffer Jensen is a teenager Lily and Sam befriend.  Sam is a moody teenager who refers to her own sister as a stereotypical "QAG" ("Quiet Asian Girl").  The other odd part is a speech halmoni gives to Lily about The United States doing wrong to Korea (p. 241).   halmoni gets sicker and Lily thinks the tiger is the reason that her grandmother is falling ill. So she wants to trap the Tiger so her grandmother can heal.  Spoiler Alert:  The grandmother dies with the two girls watching.  The author tries to make the ending inspirational but it was pretty rough.  As a Mom, I found the dialogue of the kids unrealistic for their ages.  The book does have good parts but some conversations and realizations of the characters were odd.  I know it won the 2021 Newbery Medal, but it wasn’t my favorite of the middle-grade fiction.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Cancer