![]() ![]() ![]() What would it be like to live in Tangerine? What kind of place is it? How involved should parents be in their children's sports? What is Tangerine (fruit, a place, a color)?Ĭan you play sports even if you wear glasses or have other physical disabilities?Ĭan people play basketball without the use of their legs? Yes-wheelchair basketball is very popularĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: The fires can burn for weeks or even months, traveling below ground and surfacing now and again at a hot spot, sometimes endangering structures built at the fringes of swampy areas. (It's below the surface of the soil.) Because Florida has lots of swamps and frequent droughts, it dries the peat enough to be a fire hazard. Muck fire -A fire that burns the organic material in the soil layer, such as peat or duff. Then a sudden collapse of the land surface can occur. These sinkholes can be dramatic because the surface land usually stays intact until there is not enough support. As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground. Sink hole - Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by circulating ground water. Lignite - A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Read the back cover of the book and the inside front jacket for a little background on Paul, the boy in the book, then start reading on the entry marked Monday August, 28th. The writing is so fine, the story so triumphant, that you just might stand up and shout when you get to the end. Who knows? Paul might even become a hero! Edward Bloor's debut novel sparkles with wit, authenticity, unexpected plot twists, and heart. In Tangerine, even a blind, geeky, alien freak can become cool. No one ever listens to Paul, though-until the family moves to Tangerine. He can see the lies his parents and brother live out, day after day. So what if he's legally blind? Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see better than most people. Online: ocls.Grade Level: 5th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) Central Blvd., OrlandoĬost: Admission is free. The book signing, featuring all the authors, runs from 3 to 4:45 p.m. Author Jonathan Maberry (“Rot & Ruin”) gives the closing keynote at 2 p.m. Author Adam Silvera (“More Happy Than Not”) gives the keynote at 10 a.m. What: A daylong event celebrating local and national writers “I think my young-adult novels are very accessible to and 40 “I try not to dumb anything down,” he said. He writes as much for adults as for young readers. “If it’s adults, they’ll probably want to talk about how they can get published in the genre.” “If it’s kids, they’ll probably want to talk about specific books,” he said. The topics will depend on the audience, Bloor said. Bloor said he’s looking for his big break and trying to get the plays to the right producer.īut he’s looking forward to Saturday’s panel, which he will share with authors Taryn Souders (“How to (Almost) Ruin Your Summer”) and Wendy Mills (“All We Have Left”). His second play, “Fireside Chats,” is about President Franklin Roosevelt. The first, “Centennial,” brings students of today together with those from the World War I era. ![]() ![]() His last two books - “Summer of Smoke” and “Candlemas Eve” - were self-published and focused on racism in New Jersey. More kids than we’re willing to recognize are looking at our books for that reason, to see what normal is, to get out of a bad situation.” I read books to see how normal people live. “Like a lot of kids, I was in a very uncertain family situation. “When I was a young reader I looked upon books to learn how to behave in the world,” he said. There’s money to be made, but there’s also citizens to be made in that genre.”īloor said he has been guided by a moral compass in his writing. It’s something teachers and parents work on. “The key thing about young-adult lit is you’re trying to create readers. He tries not to repeat himself, but he aims all his books at young adults. “That’s how I got someone to read ‘Tangerine.’ That’s the whole key - to get someone inside to look at your book,” he said.Īlong the way he has written a thriller (“Crusader”), a satire (“Story Time”) and science fiction (“Taken”). “What I wanted for Paul, he has the ability to see people in another way,” Bloor said.īloor worked for 30 years in the publishing industry. ![]()
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