Tiger, by Jeff Stone: reviewed by Bookworm (9)

Tiger, by Jeff Stone (book 1 of the Five Ancestors series)
Random House, 2005
Middle grade fantasy
Reviewed by Bookworm, age 9



For twelve-year-old Fu, when your temple is being destroyed, there is no choice between running or fighting. It's always running. But Fu doesn't want to run, and instead steals the dragon scrolls from his evil brother Ying. He runs off into the forest only to come upon trouble inside the governor's village where his friend the tiger cub is captured, and Fu is thrown into a bamboo cage. But then he discovers a twelve-year-old named Ma who, despite his ear injury rendering him half deaf (caused by Fu), decides to help Fu when Ying's soldiers attack the village and Fu's father Sanfu (also known as the drunkard) is hit by a qiang. If you want to find out what happens to Fu, then read Tiger by Jeff stone. This book is for both boys and girls, ages about 8-13. If you liked books and kung fu movies, you'll definitely love this series from the award-winning author Jeff Stone.

         Also in this series: Monkey, Snake, Crane, Eagle, Mouse, and Dragon (in order).

ARCs

My kids are totally corrupted. One of them said yesterday, while talking about a series he likes: "Mom, I want to know when the next book comes out."

I looked it up on Amazon. Sometime in the fall.

"No, Mom. I mean, when does the version for writers come out?"

Obviously this child is looking at a career in bookselling or library science or reviewing...

To read

Okay, ever since rj_anderson  mentioned James Bow's Unwritten series, I've been intrigued (alas, they are published in Canada, and not widely available here). And ever since reading Cheryl Klein's mention of Erin Bow's forthcoming book Plain Kate, I've been looking forward to that one. Well, it turns out that they are married! That's cool. Someday when I really live somewhere again (oh please let it be soon), I'm going to have to read the Bow Family Collected Works.