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Tigers Don't Take Naps

LightningThug89

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Parts 14
Time 1h 4m

Reads 178
Votes 33
Parts 14
Time 1h 4m

LightningThug89

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Fifteen-year-old Sam Calloway has spent his life moving from one foster home to another, learning one thing-the world belongs to the strong. And if you're not strong, you pretend. You act like a tiger-sharp, fast, untouchable. Because tigers don't take naps. Tigers don't show weakness. And tigers don't cry.  

But when Sam is placed with the O'Briens, a warm but eccentric couple who run a wildlife rescue in the Blue Ridge Mountains, his carefully built armor begins to crack. Forced to work at the sanctuary as part of his placement, he finds himself face-to-face with a broken, aging Bengal tiger named Khan, a once-mighty beast now too weak to stand. Everyone says Khan is beyond saving, but Sam recognizes something in the animal's hollow eyes-something he's seen in the mirror.  

As Sam reluctantly bonds with Lucy O'Brien, the family's spirited, fearless daughter who wants to be a veterinarian, he starts to see another way of living-one that doesn't require him to be a predator to survive. But old habits die hard, and when a violent run-in with an old foster brother threatens to send Sam back into the system, he has to decide: will he keep running, or will he finally fight for something worth saving-Khan, Lucy, and maybe even himself?  

With lyrical prose, heart-stopping tension, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Tigers Don't Take Naps is a powerful coming-of-age story about trauma, healing, and learning that sometimes, the bravest thing a tiger can do... is rest.


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