Books written by Edward Bloor

Story Time

George and Kate are promised the finest education when they transfer to the Whittaker Magnet School.
Tangerine

Just five minutes into Mrs. Hoffman's class there was a knock on the door . A girl came in holding a block of wood with the word Pass painted on it . She whispered to Mrs. Hoffman , who checked her chart , looked toward me , and said ...
Tangerine

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
London Calling

Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940. Reprint.
London Calling

Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940.
London Calling

It's London calling!” “Yes, Nana. How are you?” “That's what the overseas operator always used to say. Every night. When your grandfather would call from England.” “Yes, Nana. I know." “London calling.” “Right.
Tangerine

When the Fishers move to Tangerine, Florida, Paul tries to make sense of things. But it's not easy. In Tangerine, underground fires burn for years and lightning strikes the same practice field every day.
Tangerine: Spanish edition

Bienvenido a Tangerine.
A Plague Year

Edward Bloor has created a searing portrait of a place and a family and a boy who survive a harrowing plague year, and become stronger than before.
Story Time

Welcome to Whittaker Magnet School, where standardized testing truly is the work of the devil. George and Kate are promised the finest education when they transfer to the Whittaker Magnet School.
A Plague Year

A ninth-grader describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes many people in his Pennsylvania coal mining town from 9/11 and the nearby crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville to the Quecreek Mine disaster in Somerset the following ...
Crusader

Roberta spends her afternoons working in a failing arcade in a failing mall, where the only action comes from a violent game called Crusader.
Story Time

Dr. Austin nodded and jerked his head several times in Cornelia's direction. Then he strolled over toward Agent McCoy and ... "We had so hoped that the roof would be ready this summer for a Story Time with phonics. Right, Dr. Austin?
London Calling

Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940.
Crusader

And then a Crusader arrives. . . . Only this Crusader is a virtual reality war game, one that does a booming business at the arcade, despite—or perhaps because of—the controversy over its racism and violence.