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Summary: Sometimes the Blind See More than Expected
Review: For Paul Fisher, a 12 year old boy, this is true. As he tries to figure out his horrible past, he reveals the stunning truth about his brother, a football "hero". Bloor will grab your attention from the very first page with his intriuging flashbacks and complex foreshadowing. This suspenseful novel will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Summary: Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Review: Tangerine by Edward Bloor is a book about a young boy named Paul Fisher. His brother is in his last year of high school and is trying to get on a college football team. That is all Paul's dad ever talks about; that is the only thing he is interested in.
When Paul and his family move to Tangerine, Florida some weird things start to happen. There are underground fires burning in the field next to their house,there is a sink hole that swallows his whole school. Lightning strikes the same practice field everyday and kills his best friend's brother.
This is all fine and dandy until he notices how strangly crule his brother, Erik, acts. Erik does not care when one of the star football players die from a lightning strike, he accually finds it quite finny. He also has a big secret that could fill in a lot of the missing parts in Paul's blindness.
Paul Fisher also has a problem. He was told that when he was a young boy, he stared into a Solar Eclipe was the thing that made him blind, because all arrows point to his football star brother, whether Pul is the onlyone who notices or not.
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Summary: Tangerine ROCKS!
Review: Even though this book was required reading for school, it was an awesome book. Legaly blind Paul Fisher moves to Tangerin, Fla. The things that he disscovers are both amazing and terrible. Read to find out!
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Summary: Where ligtning stikes and fires never stop
Review: Tangerine was a fantasic book that had a wonderful flow to it. At times the story was suspensful and made you want more. I just couldn't put it down. Paul is an amzing kid who is just trying to fit in. Trust me I would know! He goes on a journey to discover his past and that the world can change. I recomend this book to anyone probably ten and up. You can never be too old for this book!
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Summary: Jason's review
Review: I want to thank Mrs. Elaine Sturgill, who read this intriguing book to our 8th grade class after I recommended it. Everyone loved it!
Tangerine is a book that anyone can relate to. So many things go wrong for Paul Fisher and his family after they move from Houston,TX to Tangerine,FL. Sinkholes, constant thunderstorms, underground fires, termites, deaths, and a series of robberies make a great book. Paul is legally blind because of an incident that he can't remember. But he can see fine; in fact, he sees things his parents won't see, and not just things that are visible. His older brother Erik, whom Paul fears and loathes, is the placekicker for the high-school football team. His father is obsessed with what Paul calls the "Erik Fisher football dream." Erik gets all of the glory and fame because he's the big jock. His father pays no attention to Paul or his soccer season. His mom is caught up in it all, sometimes sensing that something is wrong but not doing anything about it. She is too busy keeping up appearances and heading the subdivision's architectural commitee.
After a disaster destroys Paul's school, he transfers to one that is very different. Whereas his old school was full of suburban kids, this one has more rural kids. He becomes friends with a family of tangerine growers. After a tragic incident, Paul knows that the truth will come together and his family might come apart.
When Paul's mom discovers something that will rock the entire community, you are suddenly thrown into a wild series of twists and turns leading to and awesome and surprising conclusion.
Tangerine is a well written and dramatic book that is so detailed that you fell like you are in the book and you know the characters. It is in the form of Paul's computer journal entries.
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Summary: wonderful book!
Review: If you have an older brother, you can really relate to this book. Paul Fisher and his family have moved to a new town where bad things happen to them constantly. Underground fires, sinkholes, robberies, termites, 2 deaths, and frequent thunderstorms are among the disasters in this book. Some things in the book seem like they don't fit in with the plot, but in the end they become crucial elements.
Paul's older brother Erik is a locally famous jock who is loved by everyone and seems to get by with everything he does. Their father cares only about Erik and making sure that the "Erik Fisher football dream" goes as planned, even if it means completely ignoring Paul and his soccer playing. Then, Paul discovers that some people don't like Erik or his lacky, Arthur, at all. As Paul starts to remember what happened to his eyes when he was 5, Erik looms in the background, feared by his younger brother. When Paul's mother finds something shocking in their storage unit, she realizes that maybe Paul wasn't wrong about his fear of Erik and that the "Erik Fisher football dream" might not come true. When Paul makes his revelation, his parents know that they were wrong about Erik and the entire mystery unfolds to a surprising ending.
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Summary: One GREAT book!
Review: If you are looking for a good book to read, read the book Tangerine. The book is about a boy that has just moved to Florida. He is facing some problems like lightning striking everywhere to sinkholes at his school. He also got kicked off the soccer team because he is not able to play because they think he has a disability. His parents told the school that his eyes were bad because he looked at the sun. This book is great and a very fun read. Some parts are very funny and happy and others are sad and serious. There are many twists and turns that occur with this guy Paul. This book is very enjoyable. If u want to only ready for 5 minutes you will read for hours. Paul is a very smart and quite guy. He always thinks of flashbacks and what happened in the past. In the beginning of the book he is kind of not sure of him self, but at the end of the book he has changed a lot. He does not show a lot of emotion. For example if some one has passed away, he wouldn't say much. I would recommend this book to mostly every one. This book is probably best for the Jr. high and middle schools. The book is great, and I would advise any one to read this. It is a little long, but at the end you will not want the book to end.
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Summary: Twists and Turns in Tangerine
Review: Have you ever moved to a new school in a different state where you had to make new friends and basically start your whole life from scratch? If you have you would probably be able to understand Paul's feelings as he has to move from Texas to Tangerine, Florida, a city full of unusual natural disasters, from underground fires to constant lightning everywhere.
The family consists of a mom, a dad, and two brothers. The older brother enjoys football. His name is Eric and he is the kicker. The younger brother, the main character of the book who is in 7th grade, enjoys soccer. His name is Paul. His main position in soccer is goalie. Paul has a seeing disability because of something that happened to him in the past that he can't remember. He continues to have flashbacks throughout the book as to what really happened to his eyes as the mystery slowly unravels.
I thought this book was excellently written. I would rank it a five out of five. I like how it is told in first person and gives you the date of each chapter, just like a journal. It gets you right into the action.
In Tangerine everything that happens is unexpected which keeps you at the edge of your seat. They have underground fires, whirl pools that suck in entire classrooms called sinkholes, lightning everywhere and much more. One of Paul's friend's brothers gets struck by lightning and when Paul and his mom first get there they smell smoke so they called the fire department just to find out it was an underground fire that can't be put out. All of these natural disasters are constantly leaving you sweating since you don't know what's going to happen next.
This book is also good because it is very detailed. Whenever there is a soccer game for Paul or a football game for Eric usually they don't just give you the final score, but instead the run you through it play by play. One of my favorite parts was when Eric was kicking an extra point after a touchdown and the team had decided to go for two points without telling him. When he went to go kick the ball it wasn't there making him slip on his back. I remember his dad especially because he really wants Eric to make a career out of football. It was priceless imagining his facial expression when he saw what had happened in the paper.
The protagonist is Paul. He came into the book as kind of a nerd. He was scared to stand up to even his own brother. He played goalie in soccer which I think is symbolism for him holding back since later in the book you find out that that wasn't really entirely what he wanted to do. He was also picked on by some of the guys at school like Victor, a player on his soccer team at Tangerine High School. Also, when he first came to the school he was almost afraid of the people standing in front of the school that were all big and tough including a gang group in the 8th grade.
By the end of the book, however, I think that Paul had begun to think of himself more positively which allowed him to be more confident in his actions. At the end, he was able to stand up to his brother, he was accepted by his soccer team, and he was accepted by the people waiting in front of the school who he had been scared of the first day. Also, by the end he was even willing to play a different position in soccer than goalie even though he had never played anything but goalie in a game for his whole life before that year.
I think that what makes this book memorable is the constant twists and turns in the plot from natural disasters to Paul's flashbacks of what happened to his eyes. Also, this book is memorable because the main character is my age which makes it easier to relate to the situation.
In conclusion, I definitely recommend this book to anyone who has any free-time (everyone)! It is great to sit down and let the images take you into Paul's life and allow you to experience everything that goes on in Tangerine, Florida.
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Summary: Tangerine
Review: Tangerine is a fantastic book! It starts out with Paul Fisher, the main character is moving to a county called Tangerine. There are sinkholes at his school, smoke that never stops and disappearing koi and thieves. Paul has weird glasses that he has had supposedly because he stared into a eclipse. But Paul knows that isn't true. Erik Fisher, Paul's older brother is in high school and is a no good glory stealing football player who tries to kill Paul. Erik gets away with everything even crimes!
I think this is a great book for nine year olds through adults with some sad and some happy parts. Throughout this thrilling story there are bridges that connects from one thing to another. It was so exciting I didn't want to stop!
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Summary: Cliff-hanging
Review: The book Tangerine is in the thoughts and feelings of Paul Fisher, A 7th grade boy who loves to play soccer and who is partially blind because of a cruel incident that happened in his childhood. Paul has moved many times to many places and moves to a place called Tangerine. At Tangerine unusual things that Paul isn't used to, like muck fires, happen. Paul, his mother, father and his big brother Eric, are all surprised at what happens at Tangerine that didn't happen at the previous houses they had lived in.
When they move to Tangerine, Paul starts to attend Lake Windsor middle school, but moves to another middle school because an unfortunate event that happens at Lake Windsor Middle School. So now Paul plays on a soccer team for his new middle school and Eric still plays football for Lake Windsor High School. Throughout most of the story, Eric and Paul's dad is going strong on the, "Eric Fisher football dream," where their dad dreams of Eric becoming a famous, professional football star.
In this story both fortunate, exciting things happen and also unfortunate, heart-breaking events take place. I think this book is quick moving, suspenseful and brings many mysterious surprises to the reader. I really recommend it to almost anyone that likes long, cliff-hanging stories.
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