A season with the toughest soccer team in the county gives 12-year-old Paul the confidence to stand up to his wicked brother. REVIEWS: "A richly imagined read about an underdog coming into his own." The Bulletin An enduring favorite is now available in a Spanish language edition. A former high school teacher, he lives with his family near Orlando, Florida. AGES: 10-14 AUTHOR: Edward Bloor is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Crusader and Story Time. Includes reader chat questions and an afterword from the author. In Tangerine, it seems, anything is possible. And he gains the courage to face up to some secrets his family has been keeping from him for far too long. But with the help of new friends on his middle school soccer team, Paul begins to discover what lies beneath the surface of his strange new hometown. Where else does a sinkhole swallow the local school and lightning strike at the same time every day? The chaos is compounded by constant harassment from his football-star brother. Paul Fisher has a hard time adjusting when his family moves to Tangerine County, Florida. Originally published in 1997, and now available in Spanish for the first time, this acclaimed novel has lasting appeal. Seller Inventory # 9780544336339īook Description Paperback. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Readers are going to want more from this author." Smart, adaptable, and anchored by a strong sense of self-worth, Paul makes a memorable protagonist in a cast of vividly drawn characters multiple yet taut plotlines lead to a series of gripping climaxes and revelations. Bloor fills in the setting with authority and broad irony: In Tangerine County, Florida, groves are being replaced by poorly designed housing developments through which drift clouds of mosquitoes and smoke from unquenchable "muck fires." Football is so big that not even the death of a player struck by lightning during practice gets in the way of NFL dreams: no one, including Paul's parents, see how vicious and amoral his brother, Erik, is off the field. It turns out to be a rough place, where "minorities are in the majority," but Paul fits himself in, playing on the superb soccer team (as a substitute for one of the female stars of the group) and pitching in when a freeze threatens the citrus groves. After a giant sinkhole swallows much of the ramshackle school, Paul is able to transfer to another school where, with some parental collusion, he can keep his legal status a secret. Paul's thick lenses don't keep him from being a first-rate soccer goalie, but they do make him, willy-nilly, a "handicapped" student and thus, according to his new coach, ineligible to play. "A legally blind seventh-grader with clearer vision than most wins acceptance in a new Florida school as his football-hero older brother self-destructs in this absorbing, multi-stranded debut. Starred review in Kirkus Reviews, February 1
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