Problems crop up, too, in this book's pacing, but first-novelist Bloor pulls it off, wedding athletic heroics to American gothic with a fluid touch and flair for dialogue. Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. Through these struggles he unlocks the truth about his friends, family and ultimately himself. This book shows how the main character Paul goes through struggles to find the reality of what his family has been hiding from him. Build vocabulary with pre-reading and during-reading activities. Tangerine by Edward Bloor is a realistic fiction book. Focuses reading with guiding 'Questions to Think About'. Prepares all students for reading success through activating prior knowledge. A swarm of mosquitoes hovers over the housing development. Each reading guide divides the novel into six manageable units. The horrific elements, however, remain largely unresolved. The playing fields are symbolic arenas in which Paul's anger at his brother and his tentative friendships with a group of poor minority kids get worked out. The element of suburban ecological horror here is both frightening and surreal, but it gives way in the second half of the novel to an onslaught of soccer and football games. This book title, Tangerine, ISBN: 9780152057800, by Edward Bloor, Danny De Vito, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 1, 2006) is available in. As buried memories surface, he uncovers the ugly truth of what his football hero brother did to him years ago. When his family moves to Florida's Tangerine County, where lightning strikes every day and toxic smoke billows through the air, Paul begins to remember something else. When he was little, Paul stared at an eclipse too long.
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