01184cam a2200313 4500 153162392 TxAuBib 20030324120000.0 020104s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001008618 9780385729475 0385729472 9780385900652 lib. binding 0385900651 lib. binding (OCoLC)48851691 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Almond, David, 1951- Secret heart / David Almond. 1st American ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 2002. 199 p. ; 22 cm. Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus. 20040412. Self-perception Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Circus Fiction. TXJOU