Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Soccer Juvenile Fiction | Disabilities & Special Needs Strange things happen here all the time - but nothing is stranger than the secrets Paul discovers about his brother, his new group of friends, and his own dangerous past. In Tangerine, underground fires burn for years and lightning strikes the same practice field every day. When the Fishers move to Tangerine, Florida, Paul tries to make sense of things.

Paul's own game is soccer, which he plays even though he has to wear thick glasses because of a mysterious eye injury. Paul Fisher's older brother is a high school football star, but to Paul he's no hero. WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Nothing can break these goggles.Contributor(s): Bloor, Edward (Author), De Vito, Danny (Introduction by) If the dinosaurs had worn these goggles, and the Earth had been bombarded by mile-wide asteroid boulders, the dinosaurs would still have died, but their goggles would be intact. Theyre made out of some kind of astronaut plastic that could crash-land on Venus and not break. In addition to my regular glasses, I have special goggles, prescription goggles, for playing sports. Heres an example of the way Paul speaks… And I think his story will really grab you. Atheltic triumphs, athletic disasters, a fight to save a citrus grove, and the first hints of juvenile romance combine with shattering revelations about a family, a school, and a town in this surprising, moving, and thought-provoking book. The paradise of Tangerine County is threatened by plagues of insects, fire, ice, lightning, mud, crime, and death. Meanwhile, Paul goes (by choice) to an inner-city school where fierce, competitive, even threatening people turn out to have a heart of gold.įriendships, family ties, and even the whole basis of a community are tested. The Fisher family lives in a palatial suburban housing development that, under the surface, seethes with corruption, treachery, and decay.

It also builds up a cloud of danger, dread, mystery, and irony. Told in the form of a journal that Paul keeps on his computer, it explores the strange way truths unfold in the mind of a frightened, yet brave, young man. You could say it is a story about memory. Even Paul himself does not fully remember whyuntil, piece by piece, it comes back to him. Another thing no one understands is why Paul is terrified of his brother. Everyone but Paul seems caught up in the Erik Fisher Football Dream, and no one seems to pay much attention to Pauls middle-school soccer career. The book begins as Paul and his family move to Tangerine County, Florida, where his older brother Erik is about to start his senior year of high school. He really sees fairly well, though - but in a way few others see. Paul Fisher is a seventh grade soccer goalie who wears very thick glasses because, technically, he is legally blind.

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