Why spoil the reader’s fun in discovering for himself the striking originality and cumulative power of this unforgettable novel?Īs a parent, I find Tangerine inspiring and uplifting because it presents issues relevant to our times: race relations, sibling rivalry, competitive sports, environmental concerns, and more. Does he crumble in his difficult journey to become a young adult? It would be unfair of me to reveal any part of this engrossing story. This is the case with Paul Fisher, the protagonist of Tangerine. There’s little comfort for him facing challenges that often seem insurmountable, especially when he feels misunderstood by his parents and threatened by his older brother. The rites of passage for a fourteen-year-old boy can be unsettling, frightening, and even dangerous. JUDY BLOOR BONFIELD Danny DeVito on Tangerine Summary: Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. Introduction copyright © 2007 by Danny DeVitoĪfterword copyright © 2005 by Edward Bloor originally published by Viking in Guys Write for Guys Read, edited by Jon Scieszka.Īll rights reserved. This was not an easy book to read, due to the subject matter, but I feel it is an important book. Joeydag's review sums it up very well, in my opinion. The rest of my thoughts are covered in other reviews. Thank God! But reading this book, watching what these very good-intending parents do, how they reason it out, why they fail their kids even though they care, was another form of education for me in how I can be as good a parent as possible. The horror in this book is way beyond what most of us are going to go through with our kids. The parents in this book do not set out to be bad parents, but they make bad choices based on faulty reasoning consistently over the years and that leads to horrible events for their kids. Read this book if you're a parent, because parenting is hard. This book will give you info you need to know and it will do it in a way that does NOT make you feel preached at or talked down to or swallowed in helpless despair. Read this book if you want some interesting thoughts of what happens when people chop down all the trees to build a new subdivision without tending properly to ecological concerns.
There are lots of reviews on this book and I agree with many of them so I'm going to limit my review to two points I didn't see in other reviews.
0 kommentar(er)
