Theresa tells Paul that her twin brother, Tino, is a member. At lunch, Paul asks Theresa about the soccer team. When he arrives at Tangerine Middle School, he is shown around by a girl named Theresa Cruz. The emergency relocation plan gives the students the choice to stay at Lake Windsor, their present school, with a different schedule and more crowded classes, or to transfer to Tangerine Middle School, on the other, poorer side of the county Paul chooses Tangerine Middle to be able to play soccer again. Many people, including Paul and Joey, help rescue those trapped, and no one is seriously injured. While Paul is at school, a field of portable classrooms collapses into a sinkhole. One day Mike Costello is killed by lightning Erik and his friend Arthur Bauer tell jokes after hearing the news, even though Mike was one of their teammates. On his first day of school, Paul meets Coach Walski, the coach of the soccer team, and tries out for the team, but is later told that his visual impairment prevents his eligibility, and blames this on his mother revealing the impairment to the school administrators. Soon after they unpack, Paul goes for a tour of his new school, where Mike Costello and his brother Joey are introduced. His family credits his visual injury to an incident, which he does not remember, in which at a young age, he continued to stare at a solar eclipse despite his parents' warnings not to. Paul, the younger son, is visually impaired and legally blind but plays soccer. Erik, the older son, looks forward to a football scholarship at the university of his choice. Paul Fisher and his family move from Houston, Texas to Lake Windsor Downs in Tangerine, Florida. (Apr.Tangerine is a young adult novel by Edward Bloor, published in 1997 by Harcourt.

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. A swarm of mosquitoes hovers over the housing development. 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. 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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