Tiger Eyes Paperback – May 14, 2013

This book was written as the Cold War was ending. That makes the setting in Los Alamos more meaning, in that one theme is getting past your fears. Judy Blume does her usual skillful job of developing characters that touch on themes that resonate with young adults. There was very little about the story that developed as I expected.

Great read. All of us have tragedies and we must deal with them or they will deal with us. A family hurting. A family helping. A family back home

I read this in middle school and the story stuck deep, apparently. In 51 now and recently a conversation made me remember this story and i set it to find it. I couldn't remember the author. But i find it, and i still thought it was excellent. It's a good story about loss at a young age and coping skills.

When I was small, I read Blume's Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great--a favorite among the dog-eared paperbacks rotating in the wire reading trees of my elementary school library. I'd forgotten about that book until I decided to pick up Tiger Eyes. I was around Sheila 'Sunny' Tubman's age when I read her story and, here I am, reading Tiger Eyes not at 15-16 (Davey Wexler's age in the story) but some thirty years later.This book was originally published in 1981, making it a little time machine--the kind you can snuggle into and blast backward several decades in perfect comfort. A lot has changed in the world since Blume first wrote this. A lot hasn't. A major, if subtle, thread running through the novel is that delicate balance between risk--and not living at all. Davey's father has been murdered at the outset and she, her mother and emotionally-agile, Dracula-cape-wearing little brother Jason move from their home in Atlantic City to New Mexico for a season of grieving and processing. The family with whom they stay includes a Los Alamos scientist who designs bombs for a living but won't let Davey learn how to ski because it's too dangerous.The tightrope every one of us is forced to negotiate simply by being alive is handled here with a featherlight touch. How do we face not only our utlimate mortality but the thousand tiny deaths we succumb to when we choose simply not to engage? When we exchange uncertainty for rigid restrictions masquerading (quite poorly) as security? Again, this deceptively-simple story was pubbed in '81 but reads fresh, in critical ways, for the daily crossroads we each face in '21.I enjoyed being in Davey's head for a couple of nights. It felt like a highly-effective palate cleanser while meeting the number one criterion any work of art has to satisfy in order to win my affection: it left me feeling good about being human.

My daughter has ADD and has issues with reading due to attention span. We were able to read this together and she said she liked it. Was a Little on the dark side but I’m kinda old fashioned.

Tiger Eyes is a complex story about the healing process and the complications of adolescence. Davey Wexler is a 15 year-old girl , consumed with her crush, Hugh, just beginning high school, and to pull it all together, dealing with the grief from losing her father unexpectedly in a shooting at their family-owned store. For a change of scenery recommended by the doctor, Davey, her mother, and brother, Jason, retreat to Albuquerque, New Mexico to stay with her aunt and uncle there. Davey finds herself changing schools, meeting new people, dealing with her estranged mother and over-protective aunt and uncle. This story reveals the emotions of a adolescent girl going through the dealing process, as well as trying to find herself as a high school aged girl amongst older boys and peer pressure.I felt as though this book was like an onion with so many different layers to the story, unfolding with each turn of the page. Judy Blume uncovers the hidden secrets of teenage girls by revealing Davey’s love interests, inner desires and daydreams, and exposing the sometimes harsh realities of high school life such as peer pressure with alcoholism and sex. Davey’s mom, Gwen, supports this idea empathetically when she says, “It’s hard to be fifteen,” after Davey engages in a fight with her Uncle Walter and Aunt Bitsy for their overprotectiveness (161). Davey expresses desires to talk about her father’s death and shows signs of wanting to be loved and understood by the way she starts fights with her family members and then often says internally that she doesn’t mean to do it, and she doesn’t know why she does it (114). She says about her brother, Jason, “It’s just that I have this need to talk about my father, with someone who knew him and loved him the way I did” (114). This book is beautifully written and is a great read for teenage girls to connect with.

With the movie version coming out this summer, I had wanted to finally read the one book of Judy Blume that I had never read as a child. While I understand that this is a children's book, and I haven't been a child in many years, I figured I would get this book on a deeper level than most children. That being said, I didn't enjoy this book on any level. This was a slow moving book, and in an age where you can get information in a nano-second, it annoyed me.The book opens with Davey Wexler at a funeral. We later learn that this is her father's funeral, as he has been murdered. When Davey and her mother and brother have trouble adjusting to life after his death, they take up an offer to spend some time in New Mexico with her father's sister and her husband. Her aunt and uncle are stiff and unfamiliar and Davey isn't overly fond of their rules. Upon cutting out of a family trip one day, Davey hikes down a canyon and meets a mysterious man named Wolf. Now, apparently, this is the start of a beautiful love story, but Wolf makes an appearance a total of 3 times in the book, and each time is either spent hiking or talking. How a love story could be taken from that, I'm not sure, but apparently, that's what the movie is focusing on. Or so I've read.This is more about the story of how Davey has to learn to say goodbye to her father, and to forgive herself for not being there when he was killed. It is a story of growing up and moving on. Just not one of Judy's best books about growing up and moving on.

I loved this book as a teenager and have enjoyed it just as much as I approach my 40’s, I’ve read the whole thing in a matter of hours this time around! I think I’ll be searching for my old Judy Blume collection.

I was an avid Judy Blume reader in my teens, I loved her stories.I bought this book for my daughter, read it myself and found it utterly brilliant.Ok its not complex but I liked the simplicity and clear emotion that this book produced...Would recommend this book for all ages!!

My daughter who is 11, is really enjoying this book

Granddaughter delighted with her book

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