Imitate the Tiger

by Jan Cheripko

Book Overview

Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563977052
• ISBN13: 9781563977053
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.1" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Alcohol and Addiction: Imitate the Tiger Review

This book was on the same level as teen life during high school years. There are a lot of teens like Chris Serbo out there. Some kids turn to drugs or alcohol because their home life isn't good or they're depressed. In Imitate the Tiger, alcohol controls Chris Serbo's life. He is a senior in high school, a linebacker on the football team, and his life is a downhill tumble and an uphill struggle because of his addiction to alcohol.He doesn't get along with his only guardian, his Aunt Catherine, and he justifies his drinking by blaming his dad's alcoholism and his friends'drinking. However, what Serbo doesn't realize is that he takes it too far. He gets drunk at a school dance, and it becomes one of the worst nights of his life. Chris risks his position on the football team as linebacker with his drinking.His English teacher, Mrs. Whittaker, confronts him with his problem and he gets mad. Chris doesn't think he has a problem; he says he doesn't drink any more than anybody else does, but he does. He steals from his aunt's liquor cabinet, and he sneaks into bars after football games. A mutual decision toward the end of the book changes his life. Mrs. Whittaker, his Aunt Catherine and the principal decide to send Chris to a school for alcoholics to help him with his problem. He goes to try to conquer his alcohol demons. I recommend Imitate the Tiger to any teen that knows someone going down the wrong road or likes an eye-opening story.

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I liked this book a lot. It's about a boy whos in college and plys for the high school football team. He's an achoholic. They send him to a special school for ... and ... . It tells about his life and his life was not so bad.I highly recomend this to advanced readers and people who like sports. It does have some bad language in it though. It's a really good book.

The best book I ever read!

HI! My name is Sarah and I live in Italy..I am in 10th grade..Last school year Jan Cheripko came to our school and presented this book to us and other books he is working on.. My teacher just told me this school year that she had extra copies of Imitate the Tiger and I said "hey, why dont I try it" so I did...The book was so GOOD! I cried at the end! It is vivid and shows the struggles some teens have to face..I love it SO much and I am happy that I bought it! Chris Serbo was almost like a real person to me! Great writing! 10 stars is there was that many!

This is a really powerful book for teenagers and I am one

This is a really good book. The scenes of the story come alive. I have to read it for 9 AD English and it was one of the first school books that I enjoyed reading. We have to read it because it is about the school I go to, Valley Central High School. The football stats are correct to because in 1969 we won the Section IX championship and went undefeated.

A Brilliant Creative Non Fiction

Having the read the book countless times, and having met the author once, all I can say is that this is a brilliant piece. The depth that it goes into, based upon what Jan and his students have personally experianced it, is one that will pull you right into the book. I will never grow tired of this book. It deals with real people,real situations, and real places. What Chris goes through with peer pressure, relationships gone bad, and dealings with achohol... it is something most of us will experiance one time or another. I would recommend this book for anyone over the age of twelve, and DEFINITLY a required reading for drug/alcohol related groups.