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When You Trap a Tiger

by Tae Keller

Newbery Medal · 2021 · Winner
Random HousechildrensISBN 9781984893338

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Newbery Medal2021Winner

About This Book

When Lily and her family move in with her ill grandmother, Lily must reckon with the magical tiger from her grandmother's Korean stories—a tiger who offers Lily a deal. A lyrical novel about family, identity, and Korean mythology. Winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal.

About the Author

Tae KellerUS

Tae Keller is a Korean-American children's author born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1991. She won the 2021 Newbery Medal for *When You Trap a Tiger*, a magical realist novel inspired by Korean mythology about a girl and her grandmother. She is also the author of *The Science of Breakable Things*.

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