Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Tangerine by Edward Bloor is a novel about the Fisherman family and their sons, Erik and Paul. They moved from Texas to Lake Windsor Downs in Tangerine County, Florida. One of the sons is legally blind. His whole life he was told that he was blind because he stared into a full solar eclipse when he was young,but doesn't remember. Now he is in a particular time in his life where he is starting out in a new school. Their Dad is also plays a roll in why they moved. due to his job as a civil engineer. Bloor wrestles with the past and present throughout the book - in form and content; at times, he loses command of past-tense and present-tense forms and the sense of timing and narrative flow falls out of whack. Paul's first-person POV acce The sibling conflict in "Tangerine" is raw, heartbreaking, frightening, and maddening.

Edward William Bloor was born October 12, 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from Fordham University in 1973. After college he worked as a junior high and high school English teacher in the Orlando, Florida area. He will finish a fifth book, titled Taken, in October, 2007. It is set in the future. Awards for Tangerine American Library Association Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination for Best Young Adult Novel, 1998 American Booksellers Association Pick of the List, 1997 New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, 1997.

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Includes a short description of all the major and minor characters. The Fisher family is the core of the characters. Readers experience the book through one of its members while the others are key players in the events that unfold. Paul – The main character and narrator of the book. He has to wear thick glasses because something happened to his eyes when he was five. He loves to play soccer.

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html?hl ru&id C4BhbzcOIAMC. Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he's not so blind that he can't see there are some very unusual things about his family's new home in Tangerine County, Florida. Well that was seriously intense, amazing, even. Definitely not just a 'book for boys who like soccer' or even a 'book about a kid who's kind of blind. The mystery and reveal are indeed huge.

The title of my book is " Tangerine," written by Edward Bloor in the year 1997. Historical events during this period of time can be when Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States on jan. 20th. Paul, the main character in the book, who is presumed legally blind due to a solar eclipse he had stared at, as told by their parents that is, but that wasn't the case in the end. HINT HINT. He has a brother named Erik who is very arrogant, cruel, and bad habited all throughout the book. He has two friends named Tino and Arthur who have been there for Paul since the beginning of the new school for him. There was also Luis, who is Tino's older brother, who enters the book when they were playing soccer.

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Free summary and analysis of the events in Edward Bloor's Tangerine that won't make you snore. Or at least, he sure seems to. He and his family are moving from Houston to Tangerine County, Florida, and all he can think about is how his old house reminds him of an empty zombie tomb. Dude's got some real fond memories of his childhood home, there. Actually, Paul has good reason to get the heebie-jeebies as he bids farewell to his old stomping grounds.