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Summary: Tangerine
Review: TangerineTwelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. 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. He 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... That is until his family moves to Tangerine. Tangerine is like another planet, where weird is normal. Lightning strikes at the same time every day. Underground fires burn for years. A sinkhole swallows a local school. And Paul the geek finds himself adopted into the toughest group around--the soccer team of his middle school. Suddenly the blind can see, geeks can be cool, and--maybe--a twelve-year-old kid can finally face up to his terrifying older brother. In Tangerine anything is possible.
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Summary: Tre'Gia Dunn
Review: Tangerine is a great book I recommend it to all ages.
This book ios about a boy named Paul who is legally blind, his parents and his older brother Eric. They moved to Tangerine County from Houston,Texas. Throughout this book Paul tries to figure out how he became legally bling. His whole life he is told that he stared at a solar eclipse and that's how he lost his sigt.One day Paul loses his school portables to a large sinkhole. Because of this Paul begins to attend Tangerine Middle School, where he meets a totally new crowd. During his time that he attends Tangerine strange things start to happen in the community such as missing fish,robberies,and even murder.that's all the information IU can inclose. To find out more you have to read the book.
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Summary: What a terrific book
Review: This book is great! I enjoyed the characters and the plots and the ending. I won't give it away, but I will say that the ending surprised me and was EXCELLENT. I thought it was very exciting and interesting and I think that I read it in a day because I couldn't put it down.
The only thing I would say is that the summary on the cover made me think that the book had a touch of supernatural in it, but as I read on, there wasn't anything like that. I'm kind of a fan of supernatural books, so I was kind of dissapointed. After all, that was one of the reasons I picked the book up.
Final comments- I really enjoyed this book. If you like books about sports with a little touch of mystery, this is a book for you.
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Summary: This is one of my favorite books.
Review: Are you intrested in sports novels with a twist? Then Tangerine is the book for you. Tangerine is a great book that I enkoyed. I liked Tangerine because it was so realistic and it could of happened. 12- year old Paul Fisher moves to Tangerine County, Florida where he knows nobody. He is legally blind and can't do what he enjoys most, play soccer. He is overshadowed by his blindness, who knows where it came from? His family sid he stared into an eclipse when he was little. Then Paul remembers a terrible event from the past. To find out about this horrible memory read Tangerine. Tangerine was written by Edward Bloor and is about 294 pages. You can find it for around $5-$6 at most bookstores or here for $3.99. This book would be most enjoyed by 11- 13 year old boys. For quick reference the ISBN is 0-590-66092-6.
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Summary: The book was very exciting and realistic.
Review: Tangerine was definitely a different kind of book. Paul Fisher has weird nightmares dating from his childhood that are brought on by different experiences in a town that he just moved into. These experiences relate to the damage done to Paul's eyes when he was younger. Paul's parents told him that a solar ecclipse damaged his eyes but Paul thinks there is a dark secret that they're hiding from him. Because of the damage Paul has to wear extra thick glasses all the time. Paul isn't allowed to play soccer for the Lake Windsor High Team since he is legally blind. Paul decides to transfer to Tangerine Middle School in order to be able to play soccer. Tangerine was a very good book to read because it had a well thought out story line and enough twists and turns to make you keep reading.
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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: The Orange Review
Review: In this epic suspense thrilling story a visualy impaired goal-tender named paul moves from Huston,TX to Tangerine,FL where underground fires never stop burning and lightning strikes the same football feild everyday. As Paul lives his life he discovers strange events and tries to remember why he wears the thick bottle cap glasses on his head. His football star brother seems to be hanging out with the wrong gang and discovers his own dangerous past.
This book was a good book because it had suspense and made you not want to stop reading. This book made me interested in it because of the football sport.
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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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