Readers may be relieved that Bloor lets the final explosions detonate off the page the book is great, smart fun but, like a race-car driver making hairpin turns, comes close to losing control. ![]() ![]() There are characters with deep dark secrets, scenes of spectacular destruction (too absurd to be gruesome) and extravagant oddities. In the sprawling, satirical tradition of his Tangerine and Crusader, Bloor delivers a no-holds-barred, deeply subversive tale about. Ghosts or demons begin to emerge from the antiquarian book collection hidden upstairs the headmaster's wife subjugates Kate and shamelessly favors her own children and Kate witnesses what appear to be murders-and locates the corpses just as the First Lady arrives for a historic visit to the school. Harcourt, 17 (424pp) ISBN 978-0-15-204670-5. Bloor's fans will expect the deliciously dizzying proliferation of story lines, but the mix of genres may be uneasier here than in his previous books. Tangerine: it’s not only a citrus fruit, but a county in Florida, a middle school, and the title of an amazing book: Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor. The more people who move into your school district, the higher the tax revenues," the headmaster's son declaims). The headmaster proudly expounds on "test-based curriculum," which in practical terms means that standardized test scores are all the school cares about ("The higher the test scores, the more people who want to move into your school district. Bloor's recent novel Crusader ( 1999 ), to take another, fifteen - year - old Roberta Ritter reconstructs the horrific murder of her mother through the. George and Kate, uncle and niece (although Kate is by two years the elder), are invited to become students at the Whittaker Magnet School, located in an old library building rumored to be haunted. , Bloor delivers a no-holds-barred, deeply subversive tale about modern education. Though it is almost 400 pages long, the nonstop action and many startling revelations will keep teens transfixed until the very last sentence.In the sprawling, satirical tradition of his Tangerine Paul realizes that his older brother Erik is a cruel and a twisted child. ![]() Bloor's brooding, densely plotted page turner is an incredibly original novel that will engage teens on several levels. In the novel Tangerine By Edward Bloor, we read about Paul a twelve-year-old boy who struggles with legal blindness, and he also feels neglected by his parents. Roberta's quest to find her mother's killer weaves together several skillfully constructed subplots, including a shady political scheme to ruin the mall, real and imagined hate crimes against an Arab store owner, and how the Crusader itself, a virtual reality game, serves as the catalyst that ignites and unites these seemingly unrelated factors in Roberta's life. She keeps her mind off the fact that the arcade is slowly going under and that her father ignores her existence, but she cannot ignore the fact of her mother's brutal murder seven years ago. Bloor, my favorite dreamy writer, grew up some since I saw him. While Tangerine explored the idea that a blind kid might actually see more than his sighted friends and family, Crusader tackles the blind spot in the rearview mirror. ![]() When he was little, Paul stared at an eclipse too long. His follow-up, Crusader, delves even deeper into the dark side of suburbia, exposing racism, virtual violence, and even murder behind the sunny facade of a Florida strip mall.įifteen-year-old Roberta works hard every afternoon and weekend in the family business, a virtual reality arcade in the West End Mall. 0 Comments Fifteen-year-old Roberta is a seasoned journalist, despite her youth. Harcourt Childrens Books, 18 (303pp) ISBN 978-0-15-201246-5. Black and Blue (Quindlen novel) Blow Fly (novel) Boys of Blur. A steamy, swampy Florida setting and the threat of a repressed memory are two of the elements in Edward Bloor's first young adult novel, Tangerine, that made it an instant suburban gothic classic.
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