![]() ![]() In Tangerine, it seems, anything is possible. Suddenly the blind can see, geeks can be cool, and–maybe–a twelve-year-old kid can finally face up to his terrifying older brother. And Paul the geek finds himself adopted into the toughest group around–the soccer team of his middle school. Lightning strikes at the same time every day. Tangerine is like another planet, where weird is normal. Can see that his parents’ constant praise of his brother Erik, the football star, is to cover up something that is terribly wrong. And he doesn’t mind the glasses, because with them he can see. Tangerine is a young adult novel by Edward Bloor, published in 1997 by Harcourt. Hinton The Giver By: Lois Lowry Walk Two Moons By: Sharon Creech The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 By: Christopher Paul Curtis Publisher's Summary Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. They also symbolize the broader tensions of a community that wants to appear perfect but. Refugee By: Alan Gratz The Outsiders By: S. Grades:7 - 8 Lexile Measure:680L Guided Reading Level:GR Level U. They symbolize the violence smoldering under the surface of Erik’s character. When the Fishers move to Tangerine, Florida, Paul tries to make sense of things. ![]() These fires symbolize other forms of suppression and lies in the novel. He wears glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien, and kids tell a story about how he blinded himself by staring at an eclipse of the sun. Muck Fires (Symbol) In Tangerine, muck fires are constantly smoldering under the surface of the earth. Revealing his gentle but slightly dark sense of humor, Bloor reflects, “Here I am writing another book about neglectful parents during the time I could be spending with my children.Paul Fisher is legally blind. Summary: A summary of Edward Bloors 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. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tangerine County, Florida. He is also trying to balance writing a second “Florida Gothic” with the responsibilities of fatherhood (Bloor and his wife, Pam, have two young children, Spenser and Amanda). Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. During the hours he’s not working at Harcourt, he is attending book signings and speaking at schools. Now living in a Florida “target-for-disaster” subdivision similar to Paul’s neighborhood in Tangerine, Bloor is experiencing the frenzy of activity that goes along with success. Wednesday, October 4-Thursday, October 5 - YouTube (I am sharing this book with permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books. “Reading hundreds of YA novels while working at Harcourt Brace led me to believe I could find a niche for myself in the field.” “Making up educational materials for my classes brought me into publishing, and published brought me back to writing,” he states. Repayment came in the way of “piles” of rejection slips.ĭuring this “low” period, Bloor’s family relocated to Florida, where Bloor gave up writing to teach English to middle-school and high-school students. His sister, to whom Tangerine is dedicated, spent “many hours” typing up a still unpublished first novel and Bloor sank a $500 inheritance from his grandfather into hiring a literary agent. It was released by Recorded Books in 2001. “But I was clueless about what to do about it,” he admits. Tangerine was recorded as an audio book read by Ramon de Ocampo. He wrote plays that were produced in his high school and was editor of the school literary magazine.Īfter receiving an English degree from Fordham University, Bloor’s dream of becoming a published author continued. “My most successful period occurred from seventh grade to 12 th grade.” Growing up in Trenton, N.J., Bloor was influenced by literary/theatrical circles in New York. “I’ve always been a writer,” says Bloor, who narrates into a Dictaphone on his way to work and while mowing his lawn. Part of his revision included the challenging task of fleshing out minor characters introduced by a legally blind protagonist. ![]() ![]() The author won battles to keep the “sinking classroom” scene and the book’s original title, but had to rework other aspects of the story. “I had a hard time convincing him that such things really do happen in Florida,” recalls Bloor, adding that Stearns was attracted to the oddness of the story but asked for a number of revisions. ![]()
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