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September 1st 2006
by Harcourt Paperbacks
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Paperback, 324 pages
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0152057803
(isbn13: 9780152057800)
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So what if he's legally blind? Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see better than most people. He can see the lies his pare...more
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Read in February, 2008
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...more
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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 read that some...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 read that some...more
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Read in January, 2004
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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...more
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Read in September, 2000
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6th-10th graders
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...more
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Read in August, 2007
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.
The story is compelling. The characters are beyond believ...more
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Read in June, 2007
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...more
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This is an awesome young adult novel! I'm teaching it next semester to 8th graders, and I recommend it to everyone. It's a really fast read with a complex plot and really cool symbolism.
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Read in November, 2007
I listened to the book on cd version of this, performed by Ramon de Campo. It was excellent. My commute to work has never seemed so speedy.
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Read in January, 2000
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youth
This has got enough going on with overlapping events, that it is worth a reread every so ofter.
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Read in November, 2008
recommends it for:
9 to 14 year olds
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.
Review: This book is complex and character-driven, with a lot of atmospher...more
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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Read in July, 2008
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kids age 10-15, or fans of The Chocolate War
This is a strange book, with undertones of The Chocolate War. Though the plot is nothing like Robert Cormier's classic tale of an elite group of school bullies, the main character in both books wonders if he dare disturb the universe.
Paul, the 12-year-old protagonist of Tangerine dares, and dares mightily. This nerdy, bespectacled 7th grader has just moved to Tangerine County, Florida with his menacing (really!) football-hero older brother and his clueless (that's putting it li...more
Paul, the 12-year-old protagonist of Tangerine dares, and dares mightily. This nerdy, bespectacled 7th grader has just moved to Tangerine County, Florida with his menacing (really!) football-hero older brother and his clueless (that's putting it li...more
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Read in June, 2008
Tangerine is the story of 7th grader Paul Fisher and the experiences he goes through with his family, friends, and school. Despite the fact that Paul is legally blind without his thick glasses, he is able to see things around him that others don't seem to notice. When his family moves from Houston, Texas to Tangerine, Florida, Paul believes that everything will be just the same. His parents will continue to ignore him and he will forever live in the shadow of his older brother the football...more
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Paul Fisher is moving to Florida with his family. Paul Fisher has really thick glasses and is legally blind. Paul Fisher plays soccer. These are the bare facts for Tangerine, and you get them really fast. But the rest of this novel is so much deeper, and takes a long time to unravel. There is a dark and chilling aspect to the novel, which has some great sports scenes but is so much more than a sports book. Like the sinkhole that suddenly swallows half the middle school in the swanky suburb...more
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Reviewed by Mark Frye, author and reviewer for TeensReadToo.com
TANGERINE is a surreal novel strong in pacing and character development. From the opening page to the very end, Edward Bloor takes the reader on a breakneck course through one family's conflict with the past and its devastating impact on the present. Paul Fisher's nightmare experiences in the shadow of his older brother come to a climax after the family moves from Houston to Tangerine, Florida, a fallen Eden of sorts. He narrates...more
TANGERINE is a surreal novel strong in pacing and character development. From the opening page to the very end, Edward Bloor takes the reader on a breakneck course through one family's conflict with the past and its devastating impact on the present. Paul Fisher's nightmare experiences in the shadow of his older brother come to a climax after the family moves from Houston to Tangerine, Florida, a fallen Eden of sorts. He narrates...more
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Read in May, 2008
Grades: 6 to 8 Genre: Realistic Fiction
When Paul and his family move across country to Tangerine County Florida, it is like they have moved to another world. Next to their house is a muck fire that never can go out and there are rain storms every afternoon with deadly lighting. His parents get obsessed with their own worlds, his mother becomes obsessed with the local housing association while his father’s world centers on Paul’s older brother Erik. Sure that Erik is going to be the ne...more
When Paul and his family move across country to Tangerine County Florida, it is like they have moved to another world. Next to their house is a muck fire that never can go out and there are rain storms every afternoon with deadly lighting. His parents get obsessed with their own worlds, his mother becomes obsessed with the local housing association while his father’s world centers on Paul’s older brother Erik. Sure that Erik is going to be the ne...more
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Read in February, 2008
recommends it for:
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This book was preety fun. I liked this book a lot because i liked the message trough out the story..!
I liked how the author described the characters, I also liked how the author described the main principal problem for me was when Tangerine saw the solar eclips and he got blind..!
The summery that I can give you all is that a boy called Tangerine that lived with his parents as a normal boy, he alwayts thought that it would be very cool to see a solar weclips, when sometime pa...more
I liked how the author described the characters, I also liked how the author described the main principal problem for me was when Tangerine saw the solar eclips and he got blind..!
The summery that I can give you all is that a boy called Tangerine that lived with his parents as a normal boy, he alwayts thought that it would be very cool to see a solar weclips, when sometime pa...more
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Read in December, 2007
I remember reading Tangerine in elementary school and really liking it, so i picked it back up really recently. It's an amazingly touching story. While it starts out pretty distant and almost shallow, written through a boys computer journal, it hits on many points of a teenagers life. When Paul and his family move to Tangerine, Florida he has to start his life over in this suburban town. With his two go getter, successful parents and his overshadowing foot ball hero older brother Erik. You seem ...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone who enjoys a well written mystery or sports story
Paul Fisher is legally blind, wears thick glasses, and is overshadowed by his brother's football aspirations, also known as the "Erik Fisher Football Dream." Paul, who's also known as Eclipse Boy, has grown up with the story that he damaged his vision by staring at a solar eclipse when he was five. He knows that he never wore glasses before that summer, but he can't remember staring at the eclipse. He struggles with this gap in his memory, trying to reconcile the story he's always b...more
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Read in September, 2008
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Margot!recommends it for: Kids who like mysteries, sports, and milder thrillers
Several students read this over the summer and told me how good it was, but a colleague then said that it was just too weird for her to like--therefore I had to read it immediately. I was really surprised: I expected it to be mostly about sports, but Tangerine is about so much more. I think Bloor does a great job creating characters that appear in one guise, but then are peeled down to show they are something else. I loved the mystery that enshrouded the events that caused Paul's eyesi...more
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