Earning Stripes

Born a lion and a tiger both — and told he belonged to neither.

Kamau is a tigon: half lion, half tiger, and all the way an outsider. Taken from his father and released into the wild by the humans who turned him into an experiment, he wakes in a world with its own rules — and a throne that should have been his. His half-brother Tau now rules The Oasis, and the only path back to his birthright runs straight through the Ninth Annual Jungle Olympics.

With a banished lioness named Imani at his side and Jafari — a fast-talking prince of a bird — never far behind, Kamau has to do the one thing his father told him before they were torn apart: earn his stripes.

Earning Stripes is a richly illustrated animal adventure about identity, courage, and finding your power in a world that can't decide where you fit — written for every kid who's ever felt like "too much of this, not enough of that."

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