Tangerine by Edward Bloor (Book Review!)

Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Summary:
A summary of Edward Bloor's novel Tangerine, about a visually impaired boy who moves with his family to a town in Florida, and who comes to discover how his eyesight became impaired.
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This story starts out when Paul Fisher and his family (mom, dad, and Erik, his mean brother) moving from Texas to Florida to a town called Tangerine.
When they got there, they realized that the location of the house is very bad because of the constant thunderstorms, and foundation that is termite infested, and the muck fire.

After they unpacked, Paul went for a tour in his school, Lake Windsor Middle School. Mike Costello is introduced, along with Joey Costello, who later would become an important character.
After that, he went to the soccer team, later, the coach said that because his mom turned in a form that says he is visually impaired (called the IEP form). Nothing else interesting happens that day.
The next day however, Erik told his family that Mike Costello got killed at practice because of a thunder. One thing to take notice later is that Erik and his friend Arthur (also an important character) were happy of the incidence, and was laughing and making fun of Mike. Only Paul found out.
A few days later, while Paul is at his school, something big happened. Like an earthquake, later, people told him it's a sinkhole. It apparently, opened up and is swallowing a lot of classroom into the ground. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, but the damage is big. A big portion of the school is badly damaged. The emergency relocation plan was that he'll go to Tangerine Middle school (fortunately, without the IEP) now, Paul can finally play soccer again.
In Tangerine Middle School, many people are introduced. That includes: Theresa, Victor, Tino and Henry. They are all the school's soccer player. Paul also made Joey to transfer to his school with him on the phone. As the story goes on, Paul had some soccer games, and their team became undefeated. Erik also had some football games.
As the story proceeds, Joey starts to get sick on the new school, none of Paul's new friends likes Joey, and Joey thought that Paul is as bad as the other people. Joey finally went back to the other school, naturally, dropped out of the soccer team too.
Also, some complications includes robberies around the neighborhood, it happens when housed are being tented (that means using poison gas to fill the house the kill the termites and put a tent over it, obviously, the people had to move temporarily.) And the robbers just break in the window, with gas masks. Luis is also introduced. He is the brother of Theresa and Tino. Luis is a worker in his farm field. He developed a kind of fruit called Golden Dawn. One day, Luis went up to Erik, and Erik instructed his friend Arthur to smack him with his blackjack. Luis was fine after the smack, but the affect will come later. A few days later, Luis was found dead, and only Paul knows what really happened, but the other kids suspected as well.
At the senior award night, when Erik was getting his award, Tino and Victor showed up and beat Erik and Arthur up, right in front of all the audiences. Paul himself also jumped on one of the coaches to save Tino from the coach's grab. The two of them escaped, and Paul ran back to his house. When he was at the front of his house, he had a flashback from his childhood, on the day his vision got damaged, he realized it was his brother that did it, and he sprayed paint in his eyes, and that his parents been hiding the truth from him (they told him it was that he stared at the sun eclipse until he was half blind, they lied because they don't want him to hate his brother)
After that, mysteries starts to unravel, his mom found a gym bag, and in it are all the stolen things from the neightborhood. Erik confessed it was he. Police also arrested Arthur for the murder of Luis. Paul also got expelled from his school, and his mother decided to take him to a catholic school. End of summary.

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[matheus11397]

is there a movie about this book?

[omnj22]

nope this was just for extra credit. lol.

[spiker3439]

OMG ive read this book!! wow

[omnj22]

it was a project for school. so I had to read it!

[watzfadinner]

aww come one guys. You wouldnt know a good book if it hit you on the nose!!! THIS BOOK WAS GREAT!!! :D

[cowlvr16]

@omnj22 same here

[glee9048]

i'm reading this for school and im gona cheat help tell me how paul got blind?

[TopKillkams]

FUCK reading i would shit on the book

[Izmaster16]

can someone tell me where i can find notes for this? it sucks and i need to finish it for school

[stickguy13]

so this was your project? i suspect you didnt get a very good grade since it was just a ton of pictures >_>

[NBB65]

I loved this book... I wish there was a movie... :-/

[Baseballman1998]

just finished reading it. took me two days. i was expecting arthur and eric to be doing rugs or something

[VideoGameGod64]

@kool977 i have the movie eragon. ive never opened it and i got it in 3rd grade. im in 8th XD

[TheTDIfan]

Great book! I'm reading this in school! We are finishing it on Monday, I only have 10 pages left :)

I loved the story.

It always kept me and my class in awe.

I really hope it becomes a movie :)

[SkyGuyway]

so there isn't a movie for this??