Tangerine

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Summary: Tangerine review
Review: At the beggining of this book I thougtht I woudnt like it. But then when I sarted to get farther in it was realy good. The author made it so that you would seem like the good guys in the story would never turn bad, but they did and how people were living lies. Also this book isn't all fairy tale descriptive. When it talks about Florida the author doesn't talk about the sunny days, the beaches and the glamours women. he tells you how it realy is in tangerine county. He tallks about the muck fires, all of the mosquitos and about the hardships that citrus fruit farmers have when the chill of night can wipe out an entire crop. This book is also kind of a mystery.Like how Paul has visions of the past to help him figure out how he is the person he is today.

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Summary: Tangerine
Review: This story is about a teenager named Paul Fisher. He has moved to Tangerine country from Houston. He loves soccer and can't wait to play on the team at Tangerine. As he is trying out, the coach reviews his medical form and reads that he is legally blind. This makes him wish he had never moved.
Meanwhile, about a week after his soccer tryouts, his school portables are eaten up by a massive land slide, causing many teachers to lose their classrooms. Half of the kids are transfered to a nearby school until the school portables are back up. Now paul tryous out for this school's soccer team and doesn't show the coach his forms. Now he is on "the bus".
As the story progresses on, it talks about Paul's menacing brother (Erik), him helping in his friend's tangerine grove, and the soccer team winning the state soccer championship aginst his old team.

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Summary: tangerine
Review: I thought that this was a very good book. I spent a lot of my time at home reading it because there was so much happening and it was so hard just to set it down. I cant say that I had a favorite part because the whole story was the best part! I would recomend this to anyone who likes action and mystery stories

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Summary: How interesting can your life get?
Review: In the book Tangerine a kid named Paul(maincharacter) moves into a new neighborhood, with his Mom, Dad, and brother Erik.In Florida were his new neighborhood has muckfires almost all the time, and the muckfire is caused by lightning. He(Paul) makes new friends at his new school Lake Windsor Middle. Paul has to were thick black glasses because of a myserious injury. When he plays soccer he weres goggles. A sinkhole swallows his whole school! During or throughout the whole story Paul has flashbacks that connects parts of the story like a puzzle. He also finds the horrible truth about Erik his brother.

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Summary: Sweet but Acidic like a Tangerine
Review: This is a very thought-provoking book, about a kind of cast-aside, unwanted kid who lives in a family where his older brother, who is loved and coddled by his parents, is horrible and evil. The parents are unwilling to believe this, and protect the brother, even to the extent of sacrificing an innocent person's life, and the main character, Paul's, eyesight. But Tangerine is a strange town where buried truths are laid bare...

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Summary: Citrus Tang for the Soul
Review: Bloor is a masterful storyteller that deals with heavy issues without plundering the plot of his story. His characters have a great deal of texture and gritty realism. This book crosses socio-economic lines as well as rifts in gender and generation to appeal to readers of all ages. Most wonderful is his ability to build suspense and provide an unblinking gaze at real life evil.

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Summary: Loved it
Review: I really liked this book alot. I play soccer myself so i think that I understood alot of what they were talking about. It also interested me more in that way. This book was one of the best books i have ever read and in some ways it seems like a mystery. I would definately reccommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: Tangerine
Review: Tangerine, by Edward Bloor was an exceptional book. I would recommend this book to all who enjoy a challenging read. This Fiction book was extraordinary from the first page to the last page
The story is about Paul Fisher who had move to Tangerine, Florida and had started school at Lake Windsor Middle School. When the most unexpected thing happened and Paul had to change schools, he saw this as a second chance to be on the soccer team and to make new friends. As the months went by Paul discovered secrets about the town and himself. There are many themes in this book on of the ones that I find most interesting is suburban corruption. Many people move away from the city to live better lives in the suburbs, sometimes the suburbs are worse. Bloor does a great job in portraying the lives of those who live in the suburbs.
This book is written in the perspective of Paul. Throughout the book there are many flashbacks to Paul's younger years. Paul's own account of his story shows us all how cruel family and friends can be. This story is much more powerful than it would have been if it had not been from Paul's perspective. What Paul discovers about his past and the town's past is disturbing, but on the other hand it was a very imaginative piece of writing.
This book left me with a strong impression of Bloor's writing and I would like to read another one of his books. Tangerine was extremely articulate and I would recommend it to almost anyone. If all of the books in the world were this incredible then I would not be able to stop reading.

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Summary: A great book, for further info read my review!
Review: Book review of Tangerine
Tangerine must be one of Edward Bloor's finest works. This fictional book gives you a vivid image of the hardships and emotional journeys a family can experience. The story feels like a mystery but is really about a kid who can rise above all others and see the situation clearly.
The moral of this story is that even not the brightest kid can change his world. In this story a vision impaired, troubled and susceptible boy who changed many people's lives.
Paul Fisher is a lonely kid who lived in Houston Texas. His family moved out to Florida. He tries out for the soccer team but gets rejected because he is visually impaired and cannot play on the team as a goalie. There is a weird accident that shuts the school down and forces him to go to a rough public school. He makes friends with the most popular kids who are on the soccer team which, he joins. Their greatest player is a girl named Maya. Their leader of the team is named Victor. He is the meanest to all the new kids in the beginning but then he becomes nicer. Paul's brother is a trouble maker gone most of the time, with his henchman Arthur. Paul's parents are reasonably good parents, but as the book progresses, they fall apart and Paul has to shoulder the responsibility of straightening out his family.
This book reminds me of myself. I went through some of the same things he went through. My mean brother and my wacky parents, just the only difference is they didn't go to the extremes that Paul's did. Edward Bloor has a way with writing that enchants you so you look forward to reading the next suspenseful chapter. He had many climaxes which surprised me every time they occurred. But some things were predictable.
I would definitely recommend this book to readers of all ages because it will capture their attention except for people who can't read. Edward Bloor is a great author and I would like to know how he came up with this great story. I was stunned at the end. It shocked and surprised me and I felt satisfied after finishing another great book.

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Summary: Tangerine
Review: Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, is a gripping non-fiction novel about the good and the bad goings-on of Tangerine, Florida. In the middle of the chaos is Paul, a visually impaired soccer goalie, with a mischievous older brother and a shady past. Throughout the story, Paul learns new things about Tangerine, as well as himself, his friends, and his family. Edward Bloor incorporated many different themes in to the story, including disapiontment, sadness, satisfaction, peace, hope, sports, disaster, and love. Paul, from whose point of view the story is written, goes through many different emotions and copes with them all in different ways. As you are reading Tangerine, you feel like you are a part of Paul and are trying to solve the same mysteries and problems as he is.
I think Tangerine is a very powerful book, in that it makes you think about yourself in a new light and what you would do in different scenarios. It is not difficult to read which keeps the plot moving along smoothly. I never found the book to be boring or dull. Don't judge this book by the first chapter, though, because it gets better. The soccer games are vivid and exciting. Edward Bloor uses so much imagery and detail that those scenes became some of my favorite parts in the story. This novel is filled with interesting conflicts and surprising facts. Everything seems to work out in the end, but the unexpected twists in the middle will make you want to keep reading Tangerine until the very last page.