Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus.
- ISBN: 9780385729475
- Author: Almond, David
- Published: 2002 , Delacorte Press
- Themes: Circus, Friendship, Human-animal relationship, Self-perception, tiger
- Descriptors: England (UK), Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 199