Poppy (series) BY AVI Grades K4 160 pages Orchard, 1995. Readers are going to want more from this author. Related books: Inventing Elliot (n) Nothing but the Truth (n) and Tangerine by Edward Bloor. Smart, adaptable, and anchored by a strong sense of self-worth, Paul makes a memorable protagonist in a cast of vividly drawn characters multiple yet taut plotlines lead to a series of gripping climaxes and revelations. Bloor fills in the setting with authority and broad irony: In Tangerine County, Florida, groves are being replaced by poorly designed housing developments through which drift clouds of mosquitoes and smoke from unquenchable "muck fires." Football is so big that not even the death of a player struck by lightning during practice gets in the way of NFL dreams: no one, including Paul's parents, see how vicious and amoral his brother, Erik, is off the field. It turns out to be a rough place, where "minorities are in the majority," but Paul fits himself in, playing on the superb soccer team (as a substitute for one of the female stars of the group) and pitching in when a freeze threatens the citrus groves. After a giant sinkhole swallows much of the ramshackle school, Paul is able to transfer to another school where, with some parental collusion, he can keep his legal status a secret. Poor) When something looks good, it does not mean it is good. Appearances/ social class prejudice Tangerine (Rich vs.
Paul's thick lenses don't keep him from being a first-rate soccer goalie, but they do make him, willy-nilly, a "handicapped" student and thus, according to his new coach, ineligible to play. Themes in Tangerine by Edward Bloor THEME AKA Type of Conflict it involves Example in the story 1. A legally blind seventh-grader with clearer vision than most wins acceptance in a new Florida school as his football-hero older brother self-destructs in this absorbing, multi-stranded debut.
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