Tangerine

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Summary: This is not the best book!
Review: The book is about a boy named Paul Fisher and his family. They move to Tangerine, Florida where they no nothing about the town or the people. Paul is minorly blind from his older brother Erik spraying white spraypaint into his eyes.From this incidint he can not play his favorite sport which is soccer. Also his mom told the principal to give them a special form informing his teachers that he is partially blind. This is another reason why he can not play soccer at Lake Windsor Middle School.

Through the book Paul changes from being a geek to being one of the most popular boys in his school. He is really good as a soccer goalie which got him to be so popular. Also he transfered from his old school which got swallowed by a sink hole.This was his chance to transfer from a school that wouldnt let him play soccer to a school that will.

I thought this book was well written and very detailed. But some of the parts in this book I thought were a little weird for example when the school got swallowed by a sink hole. I didnt really like the book because it didnt really keep my attention. But it was good in some ways because I like books when you dont know whats going to happen next. You always think you know whats goin to happen but you end up being wrong because somthing else happens that you didnt expect.

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Summary: Tangerine
Review: Paul Fisher is a normal kid- except for his glasses. His parents told him he looked into the sun too much, where he got the name "Eclipse Boy." He knows something is wrong with that story, he just couldn't of been that stupid. Everything changes when he moves to Tangerine, Florida. For once he's in a "tough group" at school, and hes a starter on the school soccer team. All's well, until his older brother Erik, finds himself a friend, Arthur. Together they killed a fellow football team member, and one of Paul's older friends brother. [...] But to know...you'll have to read it.

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Summary: Tangerine (geat book report book)!!!
Review: Tangerine was a really good book. My friend and I read it for a book report and I thought it was very well written. Something new was happening all the time and writing journal-style was very creative. I do not usually read journal-style books but this one changed my mind about reading them.

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Summary: Tangerine
Review: As I was walking down the bookstore looking for a good book, I came up to the book Tangerine. It had a pretty neat cover and a very good summary. Then I remembered that my friend had recommened it to me. I sat down and read a couple of pages and saw right away that I will be reading and buying this book for sure. It seemed only like i was reading minutes as hours went by so fast.
The character in this book is Paul Fisher. He and his family move to Tangerine Florida for buisness. He has a eye problem because he looked at a solar eclipse too long and have to wear thick glasses.His older brother Eric Fisher is a football superstar that could kick 50yard field goals easily. He's the star of his family and school. Paul is not made fun of his glasses because he is good at soccer and is on the soccer team. Paul is a very nice, smart, and kind person inside but has problems with his older brother outside. He knows secrets about his older brother and his friend read to find out more.
If I was to recommend this book to anybody, I would. This book is one of the best book I ever read. It has lots of sports, tragedy, excitement, and sports. Boys would like it but, not girls.I recommended this book to all my friends and hoped they like it. This book is like all in one and i have to say that Edward Bloor is a good writer and this book will sell a lot of copies. It is so good it should win several awards. Read this great book, if you don't want to miss out.

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Summary: Tangerine [stinks]
Review: I really dislike how Edward Bloor wrote Tangerine. He was not very descriptive and didn't keep my attention.

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Summary: wonderfull book read
Review: this book was a nice book and it was intresting and marvolis book and if you dont like it you most be nuts and we read it in my 6th grade class and when i start to read it i cant stop

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Summary: a refreshing new voice in young adult literature
Review: Tangerine is a teen coming-of-age story you can really sink your teeth into - but be careful, this one bites back! Edward Bloor has done a phenomenal job of weaving some thought-provoking social and environmental issues into this teenage tale of self-discovery and self-respect, with an underlying theme of the imbalance of sports-worship in our society.

The book is not a mystery per se, but it has elements of the mystery novel: how did Paul Fisher lose most of his eyesight? What are the haunting memories that tease, torment, and elude him? Who is robbing Paul's neighborhood pond of the resident koi fish? Who is robbing Paul's neighbors of their valuables?

Paul Fisher is a young man to be contended with as he seeks to find the truth in himself, and the painful honesty of the events that have shaped his young life. We just wish Bloor would give us someone else to admire in this novel of the hype and shallow hypocrisies of the suburban school sports scene.

Ultimately, the ambiguity that makes Paul Fisher, A.K.A. "Mars" and "Fish-Man", a three-dimensional character, and that makes life in Tangerine, Florida akin to life in a real-world suburban community, is also the achilles tendon of the novel. It's strength, in the end, has also become it's weakness.

While lamenting his parents' (and the community's) sports-mania imbalance, Paul Fisher also revels in his own sports accomplishments and in the glory it brings to him, if for but a fleeting moment. While decrying the violence of his sociopath brother, Paul Fisher revels in the war mentality and bloodletting of his own team associates. While contemning the brutality of the "gangsta" culture, Paul Fisher revels in being feared as a 'bad dude' when an impulsive act of violence puts him at odds with the authorities.

This is a minor flaw, possibly erring only by degree (a subjective matter at best), outweighted by the strengths of a strong plot, convincing simile, strong character development (in the case of the protagonist), and hard-hitting action scenes that at times are outright stunning.

A good read. I would like to see a sequel, or even a series. Paul Fisher, like Grisham's Ricky Sway (The Client) is a teen character worth spending time with.

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Summary: Misleading
Review: This is a warning for people who reley on the back and the first few chapters of a book. The first half of the book is extremely different then the second half. The back is misleading altogether. It seems that the author wrote the back and the first half with some dark, magical, demonic conspericy going on. The second half gives no explenation to the phenominal events, such as underground fires and litening with a tendency to hit people, and his best friend becomes a jerk abruptly. In the second half, it becomes more of a mystery novel, with Paul trying to figure out why he lost his eyesight, and his friend returns to being a saint. It is a good book though, besides these flaws.

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Summary: needs more depth
Review: I might have liked this better if I were still a teenager and a soccer fan. Paul was a well-drawn character, easy to sympathize with and easy to care about. However, I longed for a little ambiguity when it came to Eric. He was clearly an adolescent psychopath, yet having the line drawn between good and evil so clearly is dull; you can just turn on the TV or rent a movie. Books work when there's depth to more than the narrator: that way we have to think about what's going on rather than just going along for the ride.

Also, I found it odd that there was no police investigation into the multiple deaths until the end, but then I don't live in a football-worshipping town. Tangerine made me very glad I didn't.

Last, I also felt the author pulled the rug out from under us with the character of Joey - first he was a likeable guy, and then a racist jerk with an attitude. But you had to give Bloor credit there for not being predictable.

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Summary: Be sure to eat a tangerine before reading
Review: Paul Fisher is a normal kid except for one thing, he has huge glasses. He doesn't remember how he got them, maybe from staring at a solar eclipse, but all he knows is that he has them. He has just moved to Tangerine county, Florida. The thing that sets this book though is his brother, Erik Fisher, who can kick a 50-yard field goal with deadly accuracy, because of this he is one of the towns hero's. But what everybody else see's isn't the true Erik, only one person can see the truth about him and that happens to be his little brother Paul. Paul is also on his school's smash-mouth soccer team the Tangerine War Eagles. All in all it is a very good book and it sometimes can be almost impossible to set it down.