Tiger Eyes is the story of a young New Jersey girl, Davey, trying to find her place after the death of her father. When Davey's mother chooses to move them to New Mexico for a few months, the family faces transitions that threaten to tear them apart, but ultimately bring them closer.
Davey Wexler is a teenage girl from Atlantic City, New Jersey, who loses her father at the opening of the novel. He is killed by robbers in the family's 7-Eleven store, and Davey is the last one to see him alive. Davey has to take a journey to New Mexico and a mental journey within herself before she is able to get over her father's death and the fear the tragedy brings into her world. Davey's travels introduce her to a world completely different from.....
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