Tangerine

Reader reviewed by Kel Tay Woo

 This book surprised me, I thought it was pretty good but too many people died. I don't like dealing with death and it makes me want to disappear and hide from sorrow. Anyways take out the death of Luis and I would have liked it more but if he hadnt died it wouldnt have lead to the end of the book. So overall its a descent book. (=

Reader reviewed by Jacob

At the beggining Paul and his Family moved. He had to go to a new school. Then there was a sink hole at his new school. Which is where is mm was filling out his papers and said that he was legaly blind. So when He went out for the soccer team they wouldn't let him play. So when the sink whole hoppend he went to a new school his mom "accidentally" lost his file so he could play soccer. He was not accepted at first. Then later in the story he was.

I wold suggest this to kids that have a little handicaped problem. I would do that because it shows them that they can do what every they want. I liked this because He kept trying to get a place to start and He finaly did.

Reader reviewed by stellargurl

this book is called tangerine andf fromt eh cover of the book you can easily tell that it has nothing to do wiht tangerines. paul fisher and his family just moved to tangerice county in florida from texas. paul feels that each of them ahve a big part to play in the move. paul's brother erik is a big football start and his father is right thre beside of him wiht teh erik fisher football dream. paul's mom become the head of the womens association thin in their neighborhood. paul plays soccer, he is a great goalie but becasue of his glasses, he is not allowed to play on teh team at lake windsor midle school. when a sinkhole occurs, paul moves to tangerine middle school where he play soccer for the war eagles.

this si a great book that i wuould recomend to all middle school kids..it's hard to get into it at first but once you've reached part 2, it become a page turner.

Reader reviewed by bookworm9

Paul Fisher has just moved to Tangerine, Florida, where his brother Eric is set to be the star kicker of the high school football team. Paul just wants to stay out of Eric's way and join his middle school's soccer team, but even this seems impossible in the strange town of tangerine, where lightning strikes once a day and there are swarms of deadly bugs. When Paul is kept off the soccer team because he is legally blind (even though he can see fine with his special glasses), he welcomes the chance to transfer to a different middle school after his own disappears into a sink hole. Even though his new school already has a star goalie, Paul becomes a part of the team and is enjoying his new life. But evil Eric is still threatening his happiness-- and more than that.

I loved this book from the standpoint of the soccer story and Paul's blossoming friendship with the tough guys in his new school. Bloor would have had a great story if he had stuck with this plot; instead he adds the Eric storyline. Eric is an extremely flat villian and readers are never given so much as a hint as to why he is the way he is. This character and the two deaths in the novel detract from the fine central plot of a young athlete coming into his own.