Tiger Eyes
First edition
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| Author | Judy Blume |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult literature |
| Publisher | Bradbury |
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Publication date
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1981 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp |
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| OCLC | 7552139 |
| LC Class | PZ7.B6265 Ti |
| Followed by | Judy Blume |
Tiger Eyes is a young adult novel written by Judy Blume in 1981 about a 15-year-old girl attempting to cope with the unexpected death of her father. In 2012, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Judy's son, Lawrence Blume and starring Willa Holland as Davey Wexler. Davey Wexler is often sad, depressed and defensive on everything. She has a short breakdown at her brother, Jason. Her mom becomes incapable of doing things about the house, Making Davey Wexler more depressed.
Davey Wexler, along with her mother, Gwen, and her little brother, Jason, has just attended the funeral of her father, Adam, who was shot to death in a holdup at their 7-Eleven convenience store in Atlantic City. After lying in bed for days on end and not eating, she starts her tenth year of school, but ends up passing out on her first day from anxiety. She went for a checkup and the doctor said Davey's hyperventilating.
Davey's mother, Gwen, then decides they needed to get away for a while, so they take up an offer from Adam's older sister, Bitsy, and her husband Walter, to come stay with them in Los Alamos, New Mexico. However, a few days before they were scheduled to leave, Gwen gets news their store was further vandalized, and she decides they're going to stay longer. It turns out to be the rest of the school year.
While there, Bitsy and Walter, who do not have children and were never able to have them, start treating Davey and Jason like their own, which eventually creates tension between Davey and the two of them. They won't let her do a number of things because of fear of her getting hurt or killed, and more so when her mother just sits back and allows it to happen. During this time, Gwen gets a job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a temporary. She also sees a therapist named Miriam and convinces Davey to see her as well.
Meanwhile, as Davey explores the town on her aunt's bicycle, she goes to a canyon and after climbing down, she runs into an older boy who calls himself Wolf. Davey calls herself Tiger when they introduce each other. She also becomes a candy striper at the hospital with her new friend, Jane, and meets a cancer patient who turns out to be the father of Wolf. The inspiration from Wolf and his father changes Davey for the better. Sadly, he eventually dies later on from cancer and Wolf leaves.
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