When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

Author:Tae Keller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2020-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Carefully, I pull the square green star jar out from under my bed. Sam is asleep. The whole house is asleep. And I am ready.

As quietly as possible, I slide open the drawer where I’ve hidden Halmoni’s mugwort. I break off a piece and slip it into my pocket. I clasp Halmoni’s pendant around my neck. And finally, I lift Ricky’s hat from my dresser and place it on my head.

Because you never know. Maybe it will help. Maybe it will make me special. Maybe it will turn me into a hero.

Holding the star jar and wearing my protection, I tiptoe out of the attic room and down the stairs. I call on my invisibility, and the night wraps me in shadows. The sound of rain cloaks my footsteps.

Everybody else sleeps as I creep past Halmoni’s room, past Mom on the couch, toward the basement.

“Am I making the right decision?” I whisper to the corked jar.

No response. Even the house is still tonight, like it’s waiting for my next move.

I turn the basement door’s knob, and the door swings open, inviting me in.

This time, I won’t be afraid. Halmoni faced tigers once, and now I will, too.

I am Lily, and I am brave. I am my halmoni’s granddaughter.

I am not hunted by tigers.

I am the hunter.

And a tiger is no match for me.

I hold the jar—the bait—in my hands, and I sit on the stairs with my back to the door, looking down at the boxes.

I wait.

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