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Summary: This book deserves ten stars minimum!
Review: In a wonderful story where good faces evil, Tangerine is probably my favorite book ever. Edward Bloor has a great writting style which uses many lierary terms. In this story, Paul Fisher faces many difficulties after moving from Texas to Florida. I won't give away the end, but it's great. If I had a chance, I'd give this book 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.5 stars! I recommend it to anyone on this world
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Summary: Wow! It was great. You never want to put it down.
Review: I loved the book. It was hard to put down. I liked how paul got on a good soccer team and became best friends with the team. It had some very sad parts but I kept on reading. It turned out to be a nice ending.
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Summary: A touching story of friendship, heartache, and love.
Review: Wow. Tangerine by Edward Bloor was a beautiful story about a 12-year-old boy named Paul Fisher. He had just moved to Tangerine, Florida and started playing a sport that he enjoys and exells in- soccor; although discouraged because of his "legally blind" status. After spending more time with his "tough" hispanic teammates he finds that they really care about him. Paul looks for answers about his bottle-thick glasses and finds the horrifying secret behind his older brother Eric's "Football Star" title. This book will keep you in suspense and has a tear-jerking ending.
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Summary: This book deserves a 6 star!!!
Review: Not only is this book wonderfully written, it is so realistic. I can imagine being in middle school with Paul. Basically, when the Fisher family moves to a new developement in Florida, everyone finds their place. Eventually. Paul must go to a whole new school to play on the school soccer team because he is "legally blind". That doesnt stop him. Erik, his older brother, is into football and his dad, is completly into the "Erik Fisher's Football Dream". Paul's mom is into the homes in the community. No one but Paul knows the truth about Erik. Not until Luis Cruz comes along. This is a great and superb book and I would recomend it in a flash.
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Summary: This is a great book that YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN!
Review: Paul Fisher's older brother Erik is a high school football star, but to Erik he is just plain mean. Paul prefers soccer even though he has to wear these really thick glasses because, as you find out in the end of the book, his brother spray painted his eyes. His family moves to Tangerine, Florida where things are much different than he is used to. His home is right next to a muck fire, which is a fire that never goes out. He makes lots of friends at his first school, but his school is swallowed up by a sink hole. His parents move him to a harder school where he becomes friends with all of the "tough kids". All of the tough kids are on his soccer team, he realizes that they are some of his best friends. Another strange thing that happens is: lightning strikes the same field everyday at the same time and place. A boy on Erik's football team was killed because he was standing in the place where the lightning struck when it struck. At the end of the book, Paul tells his parents that he really isn't blind. They are surprised but happy. Paul reveals all of his secrets of what he knows Erik has done. Erik was a thief and a murderer. He killed a brother of a girl and boy on Paul's soccer team! I really liked the book because it was funny, sad, and interesting. I recommend this book to anyone who loves to read a book that they can't put down.
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Summary: I do believe I'd give this one a Newbery, if only I could...
Review: I think most of the reviews below do a thorough job of detailing the book. I would teach this in a middle school or high school reading class as it is written with a voice that would capture the readers of that age. It sure caught mine! I couldn't put it down. Bloor does a fantastic job of bringing his characters alive and giving them their own believable voice. He deals with racism, truth, fear, bravery, and normal school items that would hit home with many students. And, he does it in almost a haunting way. He almost made me afraid, not horrorlike, but afraid of being human, weak, an outsider. The way he writes about the affluent community and his mom's "worries", such as the neighbor with too many lightning rods on his house, is splendid. The humor is sophisticated. There is a ton of stuff to talk about. The school gets sucked into a sinkhole, people are killed, the "muck" fires and mosquitoes plague the community and you love the protagonist. Enjoy!
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Summary: More than you would expect from a sports novel.
Review: I really loved this book. it was a mixture of sports (socer, my favorite) and drama. Best of all nobody named Ken or Dawson had to solve the mystery of the missing snowboard before the slopes were shut down for good (that being the plot of a regular sports book)
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Summary: This book is fantastic!
Review: This book combines realistic fiction with an ironic mystery that makes you want to read on. It has strong characters and a intresting plot.
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Summary: This is a wonderful book about a boy in childhood.
Review: I think "Tangerine" is a very good book. It starts out with a boy named Paul Fisher. He just moved to a new town called Lake Windsor Downs. He meets a lot of new friends after a couple of days. For some reason, his school playground is struck by lightning every day. At one of his brothers football practices a boy died from being struck. One day it was very rainy and there was a sinkhole right underneath the school. It swallowed the school and so Paul had to go to a different school called Tangerine Middle. He wasn't to happy that his school was swallowed, but he would rather play his game of soccer at his new school than wait two months. When he learns about all of the kids at his new school he notices that most of all their parents farm tangerine groves in the country. One day in the winter he wondered why all of the kids weren't at school. He asked Henry D. and he said that all of the kids were helping their parents fight the freeze against the trees. After school that day he went over to one of his friends houses' to try and help them fight the freeze. They had to stay up all night and pack trees with dirt and so on. Do you think Paul will make it through the night? If you decide to read this book, be prepared for a GREAT ending.
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Summary: This was the coolest book I've ever read.
Review: This is a weird story about Paul Fisher and the life he leads with a psycho brother Erik,"The Football Star". His school is swallowed by a sinkhole, and Then he goes to Tangerine. And there he becomes a player and the all winning War Eagles. This book realy Rocks! I suggest you read it.
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