- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, People with visual disabilities, Brothers
Nearly blind, twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, moves to Tangerine, Florida with his family and enters a place where being different is accepted, and soon Paul starts to remember the events that damaged his eyesight.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Edward Bloor
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- harcourt, Tandem Library, Scholastic
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780152057800
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