While at Paul's house for a school project, Tino makes fun at how Erik fell down while attempting to a kick an extra point during an earlier football game, so Erik punches him. Luis works at his parents' citrus farm and is developing a new kind of tangerine called the Golden Dawn. A young man named Luis is introduced as the older brother of Theresa and Tino. Throughout the story, houses in Paul's neighborhood are covered with tents to be fumigated for termites. After a quarrel with Paul and his friends, Joey returns to Lake Windsor. Paul then persuades Joey Costello to join Tangerine Middle School. At first, Paul's teammates Victor, the team captain, and Tino hesitate to befriend him, but a victory in the first game of the season (against the aggressive Palmetto Whippoorwills) convinces Victor to do so. She brings Paul to a soccer meet after school and he joins. Theresa tells Paul that her twin brother, Tino, is a member. At lunch, Paul asks Theresa about the soccer team. When he arrives at Tangerine Middle School, he is shown around by a girl named Theresa Cruz. The emergency relocation plan gives the students the choice to stay at Lake Windsor, their present school, with a different schedule and more crowded classes, or to transfer to Tangerine Middle School, on the other, poorer side of the county Paul chooses Tangerine Middle to be able to play soccer again. Many people, including Paul and Joey, help rescue those trapped, and no one is seriously injured. While Paul is at school, a field of portable classrooms collapses into a sinkhole.

One day Mike Costello is killed by lightning Erik and his friend Arthur Bauer tell jokes after hearing the news, even though Mike was one of their teammates. On his first day of school, Paul meets Coach Walski, the coach of the soccer team, and tries out for the team, but is later told that his visual impairment prevents his eligibility, and blames this on his mother revealing the impairment to the school administrators. Soon after they unpack, Paul goes for a tour of his new school, where Mike Costello and his brother Joey are introduced. His family credits his visual injury to an incident, which he does not remember, in which at a young age, he continued to stare at a solar eclipse despite his parents' warnings not to. Paul, the younger son, is visually impaired and legally blind but plays soccer. Erik, the older son, looks forward to a football scholarship at the university of his choice. Paul Fisher and his family move from Houston, Texas to Lake Windsor Downs in Tangerine, Florida. Tangerine is a young adult novel by Edward Bloor, published in 1997 by Harcourt.

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