Tiger (The Five Ancestors, Book 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375830723 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent, but may be scary for young readers" according to T18198. Nephew loved it - the second time he started reading it.He has an insatiable appetite for reading - at age 7, the reading level was not too challenging, but he was frightened by the brutality - a beheading takes place in the first chapter. He stopped reading and a few months later, he read the book in one sitting. He's since read the entire series, and loved it.. H. Rowell said Kids loved it!. Very action oriented book! Lots of Kung Fu, a little bit of blood and gore, bit of fantasy (animals behaving in sympathy with humans) a litte (not too accurate) culture thrown in, definitely some mystery and good vs. evil. My 10 year old read it and REALLY loved ithe can't wait for the next book to come out. Consider that very sensitive children might be bothered by multiple deaths and violence. Resistent readers may be inspired by this book with very appealing characters and a clear sense of conflict re: obeying, thinking for oneself, approp. Five Stars Amy Purkiss Exactly as described.
Cheryl Aylward Whitesel's Blue Fingers (Clarion, 2004) is a fine story that also examines those topics. - Coop Renner, Hillside Elementary, El Paso, TXCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. While quite a page-turner, employing slapstick humor from time to time in true manga style, Tiger is nonetheless an adventure story and not a more serious work of finding one's self and one's place in the world. Teens are likely to warm to the implicit theme that each person has a particular destiny, an inborn sense of identity that must be brought to light. Fu - the "tiger" - is this book's main character; in addition to remaining free, he is determined to reclaim the valuable ancient training scrol
Then one terrible night, the temple is destroyed. Charged by their grandmaster to uncover the secrets of their past, the five flee into the countryside and go their separate ways. Twelve-year-old Fu and his temple brothers Malao, Seh, Hok, and Long don’t know who their parents were. Book #1 follows Fu as he struggles to find out more and prove himself in the process.. Fu and his brothers are the only survivors. Raised from infancy by their grandmaster, they think of their temple as their home and their fellow warrior monks—their “temple brothers”—as their family