A review by anjreading
Music for Tigers by Michelle Kadarusman

4.0

This was a really interesting middle-grade novel that sent me to Wikipedia multiple times to look up extinct Tasmanian animals. I always love when I’m learning something new and interesting from a novel. Louisa has been shipped halfway around the world to spend the summer with her mother’s eccentric brother at a rustic camp in the remote Tasmanian rainforest. All Louisa cares about is practicing her violin for an upcoming youth orchestra audition, but at the camp, she is drawn in to her family’s history with the supposedly extinct Tasmanian tiger. She also befriends neighbor boy Colin, who is on the autism spectrum and helps stoke her newfound interest in nature. A heart-warming coming of age story.