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The Tigers in the Tower

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Sahira’s family are travelling to England to deliver two majestic Indian tigers to the menagerie in the tower of London.

But tragedy strikes and sickness steals Sahira’s parents from her on the journey. Left alone in London, Sarhira finds herself confined to a miserable and dangerous orphanage. Despite her heartache and the threats she faces, Sahira is determined to carry out her father’s last request – to protect God’s beautiful creatures: her tigers. To do so, Sahira must set out on an adventure and use all her powers of persuasion to engage the help of some new friends along the way.

Can the quest to find her tigers a safe home, lead Sahira to find her own place of hope and belonging in this strange and foreign land?

Our Review Panel says...

The Tigers in the Tower is an immediately engaging tale, with a prologue written from a tiger’s perspective as it roams through London: the reader is instantly drawn into asking questions and wanting to know more. This is quickly satisfied by Golding’s beautifully descriptive writing, which flows seemingly as she tells story of a girl, Sahira Clive, just recently orphaned and from India, who is left with just two tigers and no parents when she arrives in London. The tigers are destined for the King’s menagerie at the Tower of London, and her own destination is also as grim – not her father’s English family, who should have shown up to rescue her, but her own prison – an orphanage…

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