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Reader reviewed by bookworm9

Paul Fisher has just moved to Tangerine, Florida, where his brother Eric is set to be the star kicker of the high school football team. Paul just wants to stay out of Eric's way and join his middle school's soccer team, but even this seems impossible in the strange town of tangerine, where lightning strikes once a day and there are swarms of deadly bugs. When Paul is kept off the soccer team because he is legally blind (even though he can see fine with his special glasses), he welcomes the chance to transfer to a different middle school after his own disappears into a sink hole. Even though his new school already has a star goalie, Paul becomes a part of the team and is enjoying his new life. But evil Eric is still threatening his happiness-- and more than that.

I loved this book from the standpoint of the soccer story and Paul's blossoming friendship with the tough guys in his new school. Bloor would have had a great story if he had stuck with this plot; instead he adds the Eric storyline. Eric is an extremely flat villian and readers are never given so much as a hint as to why he is the way he is. This character and the two deaths in the novel detract from the fine central plot of a young athlete coming into his own.