Tiger Town (18 page)

“Not really,” the woman said.

“I have one,” the daughter said.

I looked at her. “Go ahead.”

“Do you think I could work here?”

I smiled. “Go up to the farmhouse and talk to Mr. McCurdy. Tell him I sent you.”

“Thanks,” she said.

Eric Walters began writing in 1993, when he was teaching a grade five class. His students were reluctant readers and writers, and Eric wrote his first novel,
Stand Your Ground
, to encourage them to become more involved in literature. Since then, Eric has published more than eighty bestselling novels that have been enthusiastically received by children and young adults, and critically acclaimed by teachers, reviewers and parents. His stories incorporate themes that reflect Eric’s background in education and social work, and his commitment to humanitarian and social-justice issues. Eric’s novels have won more than one hundred awards, many of them children’s choice awards, and have been published in thirteen languages. Eric is always busy on the presentation circuit as well. He has spoken to over 1,400,000 children in schools across the country and around the world.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Walters, Eric, 1957-, author

Tiger town / Eric Walters.

Originally published: Vancouver : Beach Holme Pub., 2002.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4431-2414-0 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-4431-3301-2 (html)

I. Title.

PS8595.A598T587 2013 jC813’.54 C2013-904637-2

C2013-904638-0

First edition published by Beach Holme Publishing in 2002.

Second edition published by Dundurn Press in 2006.

This edition published by Scholastic Canada in 2013.

Cover photograph copyright © Masterfile.

Text copyright © 2002, 2013 by Eric Walters.

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