Tiger Eyes

By Judy Blume
10/10


This book is about a girl called Davis who's dad is killed during a robbery in his shop. It happens in the summer before Davis started high school and in the first three days Davis keeps fainting. The nurse then decides it's time for Davis to see a doctor. When the doctor is finished with Davis he tells her mum that Davis should have a change in scenery to keep her mind off the death. They then go to The Hill. A place in New Mexico where their aunt and uncle live. There Davis goes to school and makes new friends. She also becomes a candystriper at the local hospital where she meets her friend Wolf's dad, who is dying of cancer. After he dies Wolf goes to Spain until spring. Around that time Davis's mother decides to it's time to return home. But she tells Davis that she'll have to sell the apartment above the shop because she can't stand living there anymore.

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