Summary Of Paul Fisher By Edward Bloor

Are you the brother or sister of a criminal mind? That’s life for Paul Fisher, and even though his brother, Erik, is technically a criminal, he gets all the attention for their parents. Paul is legally blind, but doesn’t remember the incident of how it happened. He just believes what his brother says: He stared right at a solar eclipse for too long. The story opens in the now empty Paul’s old home, where Paul and his mom pack up their last things to head to their new home in Lake Windsor Downs, Florida in Tangerine County. This story, by Edward Bloor, is a great realistic fiction example of our world and the people in it. The story takes place around the late 1900’s. No cell phones or video games are mentioned in the story, only a PC and a house phone. Paul Fisher is shy and drowned out by his brother’s glory due to his parents’ obsession of making him become a football star. But he is determined to change that in his new school and his
He meets Joey Costello, and they immediately become friends. Joey and Paul join the school soccer team. Paul makes the “Away Team”, and after his coach, Coach Walski,realizes Paul is legally blind, Paul is kicked off due to insurance coverage. Paul is devastated, but Erik’s football glory is as strong as ever. But due to miraculous events, Paul’s portable classrooms are swallowed by a giant sinkhole, and Paul is able to go to the other Middle School in the area, Tangerine Middle. Paul joins the soccer team there, and his papers for his handicap are somehow “lost” from the trip in between schools. Paul is clear to go, and is ready for a fresh start at a new school and a new team. Tangerine is a much more serious place for students, and it becomes too much for Joey, and he eventually leaves to go back to Lake Windsor. But moving to this new school triggers events later in the story that gives Paul some flashbacks of his early life, and the truth to his handicap is