What makes Tangerine stand out from the rest is Bloor's absorbing storytelling. This is a well-rounded story that tells a wonderful tale of forming your own self-identity and learning to stand up for your beliefs – a moral not uncommon to many novels geared towards this age group. It is at Tangerine Middle that Paul begins to see the world more clearly and to get out from under the shadow of his football star older brother. In an odd twist of fate, though, Paul has a chance to start over when he decides to enroll at Tangerine Middle after a sinkhole collapses most of the portable units at Lake Windsor Middle. This IEP form ends up haunting Paul throughout his days at Lake Windsor Middle, eventually getting him kicked off the soccer team. Also, when he registered, the school made his mom fill out an IEP – Individualized Education Plan – form because of his bad eyesight (Paul has no clue why his eyesight is so poor, but just knows that something happened when he was five). However, Lake Windsor Middle is different from his old school in Houston – the majority of the classrooms are in portable units connected by wooden walkways. Hardly effected by the move, Paul does not care about starting at a new school as long as he can play soccer. Paul Fisher's dad has just accepted a job as a civil engineer for the county of Tangerine, Florida. Although the story is geared towards middle-school boys, Bloor never once talks down to his readers, making Tangerine just as solid as many novels in a similar vein aimed at adults. It's a wonderful story about a young soccer player who is beginning to see the world as it really is. The back of the book made it sound like it would be quirky, but it was actually very realistic. Edward Bloor's Tangerine really surprised me – in a good way.
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