Tears of a Tiger

By: Sharon M. Draper

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson, Cornell Womack, Kevin R. Free, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Susan Spain, Caroline Clay

Coretta Scott King award-winner and National Teacher of the Year, Sharon M. Draper uses a brilliant variety of styles and voices to tell this compelling first story of her Hazelwood High trilogy.

The night that changes everything in Andy's life begins as a great time. His basketball team wins a big game, and he and his best friend have some cold brews stashed in the car, just waiting for the rolling party to begin. Nothing anyone can say or do afterwards will convince Andy that what happens next isn't his fault.

©1994 Sharon M. Draper (P)2003 Recorded Books,LLC

AMAZING

This book is unforgettable it brought me to tears. I would say for anyone and everyone to read this book.

A memory of my high school book I read.

I was so surprised to remember I used to read this when I was in high school for the first time. Sharon Draper was my favorite author at the time since "Copper sun" became one of my favorite read. I am a person with good memory and want to collect the books that I once read in high school and have them in my audible library. This is definitely a good read and listening to it makes be proud and happy.

It made me cry

Omg I can't even do this chapter 5 was the worst thing ever omg omg OMG I can't believe Andy did that 😰😰😱😰😱 cried so hard when Monty was talking to Andy at the end omg

grappling with death

there are not many books that deal with teenagers and death. this book eloquently deals with the intense feelings of teenagers and honors them. it gives words too difficult experiences. for young people dealing with death for the first time- which is unfortunately so prevalent in our schools with shootings Etc this is a very good book..

Light Praise Review

I have never read a novel that caused me to become so emotionally invested in it. This is a real life novel depicting real life situations that people, young and old, face on a daily basis. Wonderful, wonderful literature.

Good story; confusing performance

This is a good story; definitely a high interest novel for high schoolers, but anyone would like it. Some of the subtle preachiness wasn't so subtle. It was a nice audio to listen to on my 3hr drive.

The performers were good...especially during the first half. I prefer audios that feature a cast of voices rather than the reader performing all of the parts. Unfortunately, there were a few parts were the male and female dialogue was read by the man and similarly there were segments that had the a female reading both parts of a dialogue. I do not understand why because for most of the rendition each character had the same person assigned to read. Maybe they had a schedule to keep and a couple of people were absent so characters were double assigned. That was slightly annoying but overall a pretty authentic performance.

At any rate, I'm not disappointed to have purchased this audio.

I always find a connection

I started this series in middle school and i actually read the second book of this series and saw it was on audible and just had to listen to it. Forge by fire is the book I first started reading and I had a connection to a friend of mine who was going through the same thing Gerald was going through and now I have someone in my life that is going through the same thing that Andy was going through. I’m scared how close these books are so close to my life but at the same time it’s giving me a new perspective on things. I recommend for anyone and everyone to read this book actually this whole series. I am 2/3 books in and I love it.

Very Symbolic

The narrator changes frequently, but I cried at the very end. The middle of the story was a little slow, though. Great book all in all!

great book.

loved this book since the 6th grade. it's so good. & so well written. I cry at the end everytime.

tear jerker

I love coming of age books that can touch everyone even if they don't relate directly. beautiful heartbreaking. a must on your list