Tucker+Pinochi's+Tangerine+Book+Review

 Tangerine Book review By Tucker Pinochi  

Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, is a book about a boy named Paul fisher, who has an apathetic father, a nit-picking mother, and a psychotic brother. This book is written in journal entries. The book starts out with paul and his mother outside their old house. They have already gotten all their stuff out, and Paul's dad and brother have already left in the Uhaul van, but his mom goes back in to make one last sweep. While she is out, Paul remembers almost getting hit by a baseball bat by a person in a ski mask destroying mail boxes in a car. He remembers thinking that the person looked almost like his brother, eric. His mom comes out, and they set out for Tangerine county, Florida. When they arrive in florida, paul looks out at the landscape, and its not like he expected, But he did see huge groves of tangerines. Oddly, they ended as he got closer to the development he was moving to, Lake Windsor Downs. At his new school, Lake windsor middle, all is not right for his picky mother. She finds problems with EVERYTHING. Mostly the fact that only sixth graders get real classrooms. Paul, once he starts school, decides to join the soccer team. After several days of practice, school, and dealing with the "Eric Fisher Football Dream", the coach says due to his IEP, for his bad eyesight, he cannot play.

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I really enjoyed tangerine, and while it seems boring at the begining, wait it out, it gets better. I give this book a 3/5, because while it was exciting in the end, an author has to have a good begining to make a great story. This book also had a very drastic twist in the tone of it. at the begining, it was positive, but paul always had thoughts of his brother hanging over him. In the end, it gets progressively darker.