#TANGERINE BY EDWARD BLOOR PDF#

In the end, Paul learns personal courage and enjoys earning a 'bad' rep for defending his new friends. Why does every main character in Tangerine by Edward Bloor desperately need to see a therapist We break down everyone in Tangerines character traits. Plot twists are realistic and keep you turning the pages. Meanwhile his mother focuses on enforcing neighborhood rules and his dad on Eric's success. Paul, the younger brother, can see the world. Paul even visits the tangerine grove of the family of some of his new classmates and becomes aware of many social/economic barriers in his new community. In Edward Bloors novel, Tangerine the brothers are nothing alike. After heavy rains damage much of his school, Paul switches to another, poorer school, where he again joins the soccer team and learns to like the rough 'gangsta'-type kids on the team.

#TANGERINE BY EDWARD BLOOR PDF#

Tangerine pdf book was awarded with Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award Nominee (2001), South Carolina Book Award for Junior Book Award (2000). The book is perfect for those who wants to read realistic fiction, fiction books. Technicalities (he is on an IEP for his visual handicap) lead the coach to exclude Paul from the team. Tangerine is a beautiful novel written by the famous author Edward Bloor. When the family moves to Tangerine, Florida, from Houston to give Erik a better chance to be recruited by a major college, Paul joins the middle school soccer team briefly. They are focused on his older brother's (Erik) promising football career as a place kicker.

Seventh-grader Paul is a good soccer goalie, despite a visual impairment, but his parents hardly notice his games. Some secondary characters are Hispanic, but not stereotyped. In this young adult novel, the coming-of-age tale is complicated by the mystery of why Paul lost so much of his sightthe apocryphal story is that he looked at an eclipse too longand by the presence of his violent older brother, Erik. Should appeal to girls as well as boys, as it has girls as standout soccer players. In Edward Bloor’s 1997 debut novel, Tangerine, Paul Fisher navigates the treacherous waters of attending middle school in a new town. Repressed memory is an interesting factor, also, as young Paul struggles to remember incidents from his childhood and about his mean, two-faced brother Erik. There is detailed soccer action, some football action, and more than one type of school bully. Tangerine: not only a citrus fruit, but also a middle school, and county in Florida, and the title of a book Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor. 'This book combines both the good and bad aspects of school sports, giving readers a more realistic story than in many sports books.

Tangerine by edward bloor