Tangerine
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The Fisher family is moving
from Houston, Texas to
Tangerine, Florida.
2
Paul and his mother arrive
at their beautiful new
home in “Manors of
Coventry” neighborhood.
3
Paul has a brother named
Erik. Erik is an athlete
who likes to play football.
4
Dad is planning Erik’s
football career and Erik
quickly makes friends in
the new neighborhood.
5
Paul awakens to find the
house filled with smoke
and he thinks the house is
on fire.
6
The firefighter explains
that the muck fire nearby
keeps reigniting as it is
hit by lightening.
7
The president of the
Homeowner’s Association,
Mr. Costello, stops by to
welcome the Fishers.
8
Mr. Costello’s son, Mike, is
also a football player.
9
Mrs. Fisher enrolls Paul in
the local high school called
Lake Windsor High.
10
Paul is legally blind and wears
glasses to correct the
problem.
11
Paul enjoys soccer and makes
friends with Mike’s younger
brother, Jerry.
12
Paul joins the soccer team
at his new school and he
is a good goalie.
13
Erik enjoys playing football
at his new school.
14
The football team continues
to have practice in heavy
rain and lightening.
15
Mike Costello is hit by
lightening and killed during
an afternoon football
practice in a thunderstorm.
16
On the same day, Paul gets
cut from the soccer team.
This makes him really sad.
17
Later that day, the Fisher
family attend Mike
Costello’s funeral.
18
That night, Paul and
Joey go to a carnival in
the tough part of town.
19
The principal accuses the
soccer team of vandalizing
the Wonders of the World
Exhibit.
20
There were heavy rains that
caused a deadly sinkhole in
Lake Windsor Middle School.
21
The portable classrooms at
Lake Windsor Middle
were sucked in to the
sinkhole.
22
The sinkhole fiasco was caused by
corrupt engineering run by Mr.
Fisher’s boss, Charley Burns, who
gets fired.
23
Mr. Fisher becomes the new
Director of Civil Engineering
for Tangerine, FL.
24
Paul gets a chance to attend
Tangerine Middle School
since most of his school was
destroyed by the sinkhole.
25
Paul joins the co-ed soccer
team at Tangerine Middle
School.
26
On the first day, Paul is
taken around by Theresa
Cruz, whose brother, Tino,
plays on the soccer team.
27
Betty Bright is the soccer
coach who is tough but
fair and determined to
win.
28
The team wins its first game and
Victor, the star player, vows to
defend Paul as a fellow member
of the War Eagles.
29
Erik Fisher was
deliberately humiliated at
his first football game.
Mr. Fisher was shocked.
30
Meanwhile, Paul Fisher
continues to do very well
on his soccer team.
31
Mrs. Fisher thinks the girls on the
soccer team play very well so she
calls for a news team to
interview them, but they don’t
want to be interviewed.
32
Paul, Theresa, Tino, and others
work on a science project,
Golden Dawn, invented by
Theresa’s brother Luis.
33
Joey Costello is upset by
racial issues and transfers
back to Lake Windsor High.
34
Erik and Arthur treat Paul and
Joey very mean. They tease
Joey about how his brother,
Mike, looked when he died.
35
Paul visits Luis’ orchards and
thinks Luis is very intelligent
and friendly. Paul returns to
help out in the orchard.
36
Paul tells Tino that he told
on them for the carnival
damage and Tino forgave
him.
37
Colleges start coming
around Tangerine to
recruit Erik.
38
Paul finds out that his soccer
coach, Betty Bright, was an
Olympic hopeful.
39
Paul is disqualified from
playing soccer because he
does not live in the district.
40
Betty Bright reveals that
Antoine, who is a football
player at Lake Windsor, lives
out of district also.
41
So, Paul is allowed to stay
on the team and his team
wins the championship.
42
Paul’s friends come to his
house to work on the
science project. Erik and
Arthur humiliate them.
43
Erik slams Tino. Mr. Fisher
lets the incident go
without punishment.
44
Paul cannot get his parents
to understand that Erik is
very dangerous.
45
While Luis talks to Erik about
assaulting Tino, Arthur hits
Luis on the head with a
blackjack.
46
Cold weather hits and Paul
helps save the Tangerine
saplings at Luis’ orchards.
47
Mr. Fisher was so worried about
Erik’s football dream that he
didn’t even know that Paul was on
the soccer team and they won.
48
Luis Cruz dies because of
the hit to his head.
49
At a ceremony dedicating a
tree to Mike Costello, Tino
assaults Erik to revenge
Luis’ death.
50
Paul attacks Coach Warner
to defend Tino.
51
Later, Erik threatened Paul
with a metal bat but Paul
isn’t afraid of Erik
anymore.
52
Paul tells Erik that he knows
Erik killed Luis. Erik loses
control and smashes the car
with his bat.
53
Suddenly Paul remembers how his
vision was damaged; Erik had
pried his eyelids open while
Erik’s friend, Vincent Castor,
sprayed white paint into them.
54
Mr. & Mrs. Fisher cover up
the paint incident to
protect Erik.
55
The newspaper breaks the
scandal since Antoine Thomas
lives out-of-district, the team’s
season is void and Erik Fisher’s
football dream is over.
56
Mrs. Fisher finds out that Erik and
Arthur have been robbing homes in
the development and hiding their
loot in the family storage bin.
57
In order to recover their
possessions, the homeowners
agree to give Erik and Arthur
a second chance.
58
Arthur is arrested for
murdering Luis Cruz.
59
Paul tells the police that
he saw Erik order
Arthur to assault Luis.
60
Paul is expelled for
assaulting the coach and
he starts in St. Anthony’s
School.
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