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 enlarge | Author: Edward Bloor
Creator: Danny De Vito
Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: $6.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  460 reviews
Sales Rank: 14286
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Harcourt Ed
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 324
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0152057803
EAN: 9780152057800
ASIN: 0152057803
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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 Tangerine August 12, 2007
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I read this book it didn't seem like there were any happy times in it. It seemed like all it was, was violence, and bullying. If I were older I think I would have understood it better, and maybe I would even like it. When I picked it off of the summer reading book list, I thought I might like it so I kept on reading, but nothing good or exciting happened, and that is how I feel about this book.
 Fisher Man July 31, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Paul Fisher, AKA Fisher Man, has a not so normal life. Living on top of muck fires and in a termite-infested house with a brother that has everything a child could want, he turned out pretty normal. In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul finds a way of life in Tangerine County.
I thought Paul's life was not very realistic because there was too much going on at once. His best friend's brother died, his school started melting into a sinkhole, and he gets bullied by everyone. This book needs to have more focus to it other than bullying. How could one kid get beat up by his brother and get teased by the almost the whole county without his parents knowing anything?
I have to say it had great detail but I would only recommend it to readers that like soccer and for those who like intense stories.
 A really great book July 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My son who is 12 read this book as part of his summer reading assignment from school - I also read it - what a great story! We especially enjoyed it because I grew up in Florida and the story was so true to how all the developers and transplants have tried to turn the state into one giant Disney and how nature thwarts them whenever it can - but anyone would enjoy this book. It is a great story with a really good message.
 Sports Story With So Much More July 1, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sports play a big part in the plot of TANGERINE as the legally blind progagonist, Paul, is a talented soccer player and his games are described in vivid detail. Paul's sinister older brother is a star football player and his adventures as a kicker are also integral to the tale. Yet the book examines many facets of modern suburban life beyond the sports field. The adults who are almost all well developed can be described as ambitious upwardly mobile people who populate pretentious new subdivisions, disdain the natural world on which their "mcmansions" are built and tend to live through their children. Conflicts between ethnic groups and socioeconomic groups are also well examined. The consequences of unacknowledged misdeeds is a strong theme. Though the individual characters are well drawn and Paul and his friends are very sympathetic the situations include several unlikely natural disasters and tragedies which makes the total story a bit surreal. The book is worth reading as it is well written and appealing to middle school aged students.
 Family Problems June 10, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Paul's family has always moved quite a bit. This time he is in seventh grade, his brother Erik is a senior in high school and they are moving to Tangerine, Florida. Erik is expected to be a star football player there, continuing the dream he and his parents have of a life of football. Paul has heard the dream so often that he is sick of it and the way his father, especially, never seems to focus on anything else.
Paul is a great soccer player, although his parents don't seem to notice. His abilities are surprising, actually, since he's had a problem with his eyes for years and has to wear thick glasses to correct his vision. He was told that the damage was caused by looking at a solar eclipse, but Paul has fuzzy and fleeting memories of something else--something that involves his brother.
Things go fairly badly for Paul until a disaster at his middle school causes him to be transferred to a more inner-city school nearby. There he is able to make the soccer team and to be accepted by the other members. For the first time in his life, he finds himself unafraid to stand up to his brother and to fight for what's right.
I liked how Paul kept unraveling little bits of the mystery of his eyes throughout the story until he could finally remember what happened. I also liked the circumstances that brought Paul to his new school, and I liked the interaction between him and his group of friends.
I found it hard to believe, though, that Paul's parents, knowing Erik's history and his personality, would have treated him like a king for so long. I also couldn't understand Joey's prejudice, and then I couldn't understand why Paul put up with it and continued to be his friend.
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