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Bloor,
Edward
TANGERINE
San Diego :
Harcourt Brace, 1997
IL
5-8
ISBN
015201246X
(2
booktalks)
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- Booktalk
#1
Paul
Fisher, visually-impared since five, has always
lived in the shadow of his older brother Erik, a
high school football star. Their father is
obsessed with Erik's football career. With the
help of special prescription goggles, Paul can
see, and is an excellent soccer player. He can
also see things his parents can't, like the
disturbed dangerous side of his older brother
Erik. When the family moves to Tangerine County,
Florida, Paul begins to recall random memories
of manacing incidents involving his brother. He
senses that the mysterious accident that damaged
his eyes is also the reason he fears his
brother. This is an outstanding novel with a
fast-moving plot that pulls you along to a
dramatic conclusion. Pick this one up to
read!
(Marilyn
Harfst, harfst@starnetinc.com,
Library Media Specialist, Hannah Beardsley
Middle School, Crystal Lake,
Florida)
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- Booktalk
#2
This
book is mainly focused on a normal boy named
Paul Fisher who has a strange eyesight problem
which could be either considered an ability or a
disability, however you see it. Paul lives
in a very strange town where it storms everyday
at 4:00 p.m. Throughout the book, Paul
tries to figure out these problems along with a
few others such as why his brother laughs at the
two deaths caused by strange happenings.
Why a sinkhole swallows part of his
school. And why fires burn underground for
years at a time. (Read p. 244) If
you read this book, you will learn why, in a
county called Tangerine, Florida, science is
overwhelmed. To find out more, read
TANGERINE by Edward Bloor.
(Josh
M., 8th grade student, Rundlett Middle School,
Concord, New Hampshire)
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SUBJECTS:
Soccer -- Fiction
Brothers -- Fiction
Florida -- Fiction
Visually handicapped -- Fiction
Physically handicapped -- Fiction
Diaries -- Fiction
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