Though legally blind, Paul Fisher can see what others cannot. He can see that his parents' constant praise of his brother, Erik, the football star,...
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Mar 05, 2008
Casey
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This is actually the best book I've read before, even though I don't read much. I can relate to it a lot, because it's about soccer, and I play it a lot. In this book, Paul Fisher is a young boy who moved from Texas, too Tangerine, Florida. He goes to a school where he can finally play soccer, but then has a conflict because of his impaired vision. That is a whole different part of the story, my favorite part. His parents have been lying to him his whole life about why he has impaired vision
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Sep 13, 2007
Annie
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As I figured out which shelves to put this on, I was realizing that Bloor really tried to pack a lot of issues into a relatively short book and he did an excellent job of it. There's the racism/classism stuff and environmentalism (or lack thereof) and disabilities and how they are dealt with in the school system and lots of inequity that isn't related to race or class and farming and safe driving and sports and bulleying and and and.
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Aug 03, 2011
Freddy
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I read it in 7th Grade in school as required reading. Out of all the books I read that year, I personally found "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie was (and is still) the best. However, this came in second.
This book about a boy who is nearly blind and moves to Florida. The book generally was quite nice. However, I felt the plot was a tad bit weird, and the description of how he was blinded somewhat creepy and icky. However, overall, it was an ok book to re More...
This book about a boy who is nearly blind and moves to Florida. The book generally was quite nice. However, I felt the plot was a tad bit weird, and the description of how he was blinded somewhat creepy and icky. However, overall, it was an ok book to re More...
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Mar 18, 2009
Rebecca
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Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Harcourt, 1997, 303, $6.95
Topics: Sports, relationships, honesty and integrity
ISBN: 015201246X
Rebecca Dulaney
Paul Fisher, a legally blind, 12-year-old middle school goalie, moves to Florida and joins the War Eagles—Tangerine County’s best and toughest soccer team. He makes new friends, battles the stigma of being visually impaired, and begins to recover suppressed memories of abuse by his older, football playing brother Erik. Muck fires b More...
Harcourt, 1997, 303, $6.95
Topics: Sports, relationships, honesty and integrity
ISBN: 015201246X
Rebecca Dulaney
Paul Fisher, a legally blind, 12-year-old middle school goalie, moves to Florida and joins the War Eagles—Tangerine County’s best and toughest soccer team. He makes new friends, battles the stigma of being visually impaired, and begins to recover suppressed memories of abuse by his older, football playing brother Erik. Muck fires b More...
Nov 06, 2008
Mahrya
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Bloor, Edward, Tangerine, Scholastic Signature, 294 pages. Fictional chapter book, realistic story.
Description: Paul and his family move to a strange Florida town where daily thunder storms and an underground "muck fire" add a vague menace to Paul's quiet suburban neighborhood. Paul excels at soccer, even though he is nearly blind, and he tries to come to terms with the true nature of his family.
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Description: Paul and his family move to a strange Florida town where daily thunder storms and an underground "muck fire" add a vague menace to Paul's quiet suburban neighborhood. Paul excels at soccer, even though he is nearly blind, and he tries to come to terms with the true nature of his family.
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Dec 17, 2009
Linda (Librarian)
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Paul is the goalie for his soccer team despite the fact the he is practically blind. His parents hardly notice that he is a gifted soccer player becasue he is completely overshadowed by his older brother, Erik. His father is particularly obsessed by Erik and his chances of getting a football scholarship at a big college. Paul is the only one who notices that Erik is not a nice person, to say the least. The book begins as the family moves to Tangerine, Florida. One of the things that I partic
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Oct 14, 2007
Jackie "the Librarian"
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I hate sports, and I loved this book. Paul has worn thick glasses ever since a mysterious accident that happened when he was five, but he's not blind, and he is seeing more clearly every day. He loves soccer, and is determined to play goalie at his new school in Tangerine, Florida. But his mom registers him as disabled, and he is disqualified to play. So he switches to the city school. Paul remains undaunted by everything he is faced with in weird Florida - muck fires, lightning striking everywh
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Dec 16, 2009
Rebecca
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I thought it was going to be about a social-outcast kid who wears really thick glasses, playing soccer. And I thought it would make me sad. But it's actually about a kid who wears really thick glasses, and his nasty (like, psychotic) older brother, and moving to florida, and lightning, and muck fires, and mystery! What was the accident that caused his loss of vision--and why can't he remember it? And what it going on in Tangerine county?--Why are the muck fields ablaze, why does lightning strik
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Dec 01, 2011
elissa
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One of my favorite-ever booktalks, mainly because it has a lot of boy appeal. A great middle school title about sports and dysfunctional families.
Fall 2011: Re-reading with Jesse & Leo. We're not reading it really quickly, but we're all motivated to keep going even when we miss a few days. **We're finished now, and I still liked it as much as I did the first time. It's a very exciting and jam-packed ending. Jesse went away for a few chapters, and we had A LOT to fill him in on More...
Fall 2011: Re-reading with Jesse & Leo. We're not reading it really quickly, but we're all motivated to keep going even when we miss a few days. **We're finished now, and I still liked it as much as I did the first time. It's a very exciting and jam-packed ending. Jesse went away for a few chapters, and we had A LOT to fill him in on More...
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Dec 10, 2009
finished it!! really liked it, but there was a lot of sports play-by-plays that i couldn't understand. otherwise very good!
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Mar 04, 2009
Tracy
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The sibling conflict in "Tangerine" is raw, heartbreaking, frightening, and maddening. Bloor reveals the pivotal source of the conflict in slow, re-captured memories, until the climax, when the main character, Paul, understands both the past and the present. Bloor wrestles with the past and present throughout the book -- in form and content; at times, he loses command of past-tense and present-tense forms and the sense of timing and narrative flow falls out of whack. Paul's first-perso
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Feb 03, 2012
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Dec 30, 2011
Micki
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From the book jacket:
Paul Fisher is legally blind. He wears glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien, and kids tell a story about how he blinded himself by staring at an eclipse of the sun. But Paul doesn’t remember doing that. And he doesn’t mind the glasses, because with them he can see. Can see that his parents’ constant praise of his brother Erik, the football star, is to cover up something that is terribly wrong. But no one listens to Paul. Until his family moves to Tange More...
Paul Fisher is legally blind. He wears glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien, and kids tell a story about how he blinded himself by staring at an eclipse of the sun. But Paul doesn’t remember doing that. And he doesn’t mind the glasses, because with them he can see. Can see that his parents’ constant praise of his brother Erik, the football star, is to cover up something that is terribly wrong. But no one listens to Paul. Until his family moves to Tange More...
Dec 15, 2011
Edward Bloor's Tangerine is about a boy who can't really figure out what happened to him. He keeps getting pieces of information that don't make since while separate, but he knows they somehow fit together. He is balancing a new school, a new home, distracted parents, a hateful brother and a new life along with figuring out what really went on the night he developed his "visual handicap". He goes through a few obstacles while starting the new year at his new school, like making the soc
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Dec 15, 2011
Wyattehs
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I read the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor. At the beginning of the story I didn’t see how this book would turn in to an interesting one. It started off way to slow about a family with a star football player that was moving from Texas to Florida. There were many exiting things that happened in the book that kept you interested almost to many making you think that the place they were living was absolutely ridiculous. Most of the events in the book were sad and terrifying ones the book didn’t reall
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Nov 08, 2011
Nathaniel
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November 7, 2011
I would recommend this book to a friend. I would recommend this book for its suspense and characterization. There are a lot of scenes with suspense in this book. On page (119) it says “I scrambled up and jumped on his back. I brought him down and started punching him blindly the way I’d seen Tino do it.” This shows a lot of suspense and violence, which I think it made the book really awesome. The suspense in this scene is you don’t know if the kid go More...
November 7, 2011
I would recommend this book to a friend. I would recommend this book for its suspense and characterization. There are a lot of scenes with suspense in this book. On page (119) it says “I scrambled up and jumped on his back. I brought him down and started punching him blindly the way I’d seen Tino do it.” This shows a lot of suspense and violence, which I think it made the book really awesome. The suspense in this scene is you don’t know if the kid go More...
Oct 14, 2011
Fabrice Shema
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Bloor, Edward.Tangerine.SanDiego, Calif: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
Completion within the family regarding sports can sometimes get out of hand with some hatred, but at the end we are positively doing it to push eachother.Tangerine was a great example written by Edward Bloor, telling and putting it in perspective about how the word competition is not just a word. It’s more than a word because it’s some More...
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Bloor, Edward.Tangerine.SanDiego, Calif: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
Completion within the family regarding sports can sometimes get out of hand with some hatred, but at the end we are positively doing it to push eachother.Tangerine was a great example written by Edward Bloor, telling and putting it in perspective about how the word competition is not just a word. It’s more than a word because it’s some More...
Jul 29, 2011
Rickyjez
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The anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss is known for demonstrating how people recycle and retell stories. Bearing this in mind, I believe Tangerine had some of the basic elements of Death of a Salesman only it is a high intensity version. I loved this book and would suggest it as a 'great read' to YA or adults. A dysfunctional family learns the hard way to break out of patterns of denial. The hero, who is the youngest in his family, is one step ahead of the rest in this respect even though he is
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Jun 09, 2011
Badiss
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The protagonist of a story is the main character who traditionally undergoes some sort of change. He or she must usually overcome some opposing force. In this story, the protagonist is Paul. This book is his journal.
The antagonist of a story is the force that provides an obstacle for the protagonist. The antagonist does not always have to be a single character or even a character at all. Paul’s brother, Erik, is the main antagonist. Arthur, Erik’s friend, is another antagonist. An additiona More...
The antagonist of a story is the force that provides an obstacle for the protagonist. The antagonist does not always have to be a single character or even a character at all. Paul’s brother, Erik, is the main antagonist. Arthur, Erik’s friend, is another antagonist. An additiona More...
Apr 10, 2011
Anthony
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Tangerine, a novel by Edward Bloor, is a fascinating book about secrets, friendship and truths, that catches the reader's attention. The protagonist, Paul Fisher, is a legally blind soccer player who had just moved to Tangerine, Florida with his parents and brother, Eric Fisher, who is a star football player. But Tangerine is not a place like any other, muck fires and sinkholes were common, and lightning strike commonly. Though Paul was not use to this, he adapted to it and find many new fr
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Apr 06, 2011
Colleen
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This is a novel all about authenticity -- nearly guaranteed to attract pre-teens who are, like the protagonist Paul, just starting to see beneath the surface of the comfortable world they've been inhabiting. To perceive differences like class, race, to start to prize things that their parents don't understand. Paul, who has a rock-solid core of empathy and a sense of right, is the kind of character parents would be glad to have their kids identify with, if the kids won't listen to the standard a
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Mar 21, 2011
Tangerine
Tangerine is a book about a boy named Paul Fisher who wears big glasses and loves to play soccer. He has an older brother named Eric who plays football and is an amazing place kicker. The Fishers move to Florida to a city called Tangerine, it has thunderstorms all of the time and used to be a place full of orange groves. Paul wanted to play soccer on his school soccer team, but he couldn’t because his mom filled out a form that said he was legally blind so he couldn’t play. A More...
Tangerine is a book about a boy named Paul Fisher who wears big glasses and loves to play soccer. He has an older brother named Eric who plays football and is an amazing place kicker. The Fishers move to Florida to a city called Tangerine, it has thunderstorms all of the time and used to be a place full of orange groves. Paul wanted to play soccer on his school soccer team, but he couldn’t because his mom filled out a form that said he was legally blind so he couldn’t play. A More...
Feb 28, 2011
Paul is legally blind and has huge bottle thick glasses, but even with these set backs he can see better than most people, he can see the lies that people say. His brother is a criminal, he knows it his family knows it, but they all lie so he doesn’t get in trouble. In Paul’s dad’s eyes, his brother can do no wrong, Paul means nothing because he doesn’t play football, everything is about his brother, until they move to Tangerine Florida. Paul makes some friends and gets on the soccer team as goa
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Feb 21, 2011
Paul Fisher and his family move to a farmland named Tangerine, Florida. Despite the beautiful tangerine trees, Tangerine is a lot stranger of a place then they suspect. They later on figure out that strange mud fires occur often, lightning strikes their high schools football field everyday at 4, and that freakish sink-holes there can engulf entire schools.
Paul is in middle school. He enjoys playing sports, especially soccer. He wears goggles when he plays because he has horrible visio More...
Paul is in middle school. He enjoys playing sports, especially soccer. He wears goggles when he plays because he has horrible visio More...
Feb 16, 2011
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Lauren Criddle pd.1
Tangerine
In this book the main character is Paul fisher. He loves to play soccer. Paul is almost unnoticed in his family. His parents are occupied trying to pursue the ‘Eric Fisher football dream’ (Paul’s older brother). This leads to the family moving and new schools for Paul. It all starts when the Fisher family moves to Florida. Paul attends Tangerine Middle School, as a seventh grader, hop More...
Lauren Criddle pd.1
Tangerine
In this book the main character is Paul fisher. He loves to play soccer. Paul is almost unnoticed in his family. His parents are occupied trying to pursue the ‘Eric Fisher football dream’ (Paul’s older brother). This leads to the family moving and new schools for Paul. It all starts when the Fisher family moves to Florida. Paul attends Tangerine Middle School, as a seventh grader, hop More...
Feb 16, 2011
Bekah
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Book Review: Tangerine by Edward Bloor
It sucks growing up in the shadow of an older sibling. Tangerine is about a 7th grader named Paul Fisher who has that problem. Paul has an older brother name Erik. He has always lived in the shadow of his brother and the Erik Fisher Football Dream. In his family everything is about Erik, Erik, Erik, and football. He knows things about Erik that his parents don’t know, or don’t want to know. What Erik doesn’t realize though is that in the end football More...
It sucks growing up in the shadow of an older sibling. Tangerine is about a 7th grader named Paul Fisher who has that problem. Paul has an older brother name Erik. He has always lived in the shadow of his brother and the Erik Fisher Football Dream. In his family everything is about Erik, Erik, Erik, and football. He knows things about Erik that his parents don’t know, or don’t want to know. What Erik doesn’t realize though is that in the end football More...
Nov 15, 2010
Adam
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Tangerine:
A Page Turner
What would you do if you could not do something you loved to do because of something that happened years ago? Well in the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor this is the case. Paul and his family have just recently moved from Texas to Florida. Paul loved to play soccer and is very good at it. However when he gets to Florida he is informed that he can’t play because he is an insurance liability. Then when a natural disaster happens to his school he transfers to anothe More...
A Page Turner
What would you do if you could not do something you loved to do because of something that happened years ago? Well in the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor this is the case. Paul and his family have just recently moved from Texas to Florida. Paul loved to play soccer and is very good at it. However when he gets to Florida he is informed that he can’t play because he is an insurance liability. Then when a natural disaster happens to his school he transfers to anothe More...
Oct 13, 2010
Janelle
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A Refreshing Return to Young Adult Literature
Before reading Tangerine, I was a bit apprehensive about reading this book, assuming that the stories would be unchallenging and uninteresting. To my delight, Tangerine provided a refreshing return to simpler, gripping story lines that made the novel feel more like a personal reading choice. In fact, while reading the novel, I felt like a teenager again, reading by lamp light into the wee hours of the morning, fearing reprimanding—no lo More...
Before reading Tangerine, I was a bit apprehensive about reading this book, assuming that the stories would be unchallenging and uninteresting. To my delight, Tangerine provided a refreshing return to simpler, gripping story lines that made the novel feel more like a personal reading choice. In fact, while reading the novel, I felt like a teenager again, reading by lamp light into the wee hours of the morning, fearing reprimanding—no lo More...
Aug 26, 2010
Maggie
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I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I often have issues with books that include sports play-by-plays; mostly because I don't care enough about the sport to follow along. I also have a hard time identifying with characters that are that into sports, because I'm not--we just don't have much in common.
I continued to read this book because of the unanswered questions--kind of like how I kept watching LOST to figure stuff out. And just like LOST, a lot of the mysteries either More...
I continued to read this book because of the unanswered questions--kind of like how I kept watching LOST to figure stuff out. And just like LOST, a lot of the mysteries either More...
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Aug 23, 2010
Patrice
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GENRE: Fiction, realistic fiction. Serving Young Teens and 'Tweens (2007) sorted this title under "Books about Focus and Direction."
SUMMARY: Paul Fisher is legally blind, though he doesn't let that stop him from playing soccer, any way he can. Paul, 12, struggles to come out from his football-star brother's shadow, while his parents find their own niche after moving to a new community in Tangerine County, Florida.
EVALUATION: This book succeeds on many levels. Th More...
SUMMARY: Paul Fisher is legally blind, though he doesn't let that stop him from playing soccer, any way he can. Paul, 12, struggles to come out from his football-star brother's shadow, while his parents find their own niche after moving to a new community in Tangerine County, Florida.
EVALUATION: This book succeeds on many levels. Th More...
