Frozen In Time (Finished)

 Frozen In Time
By:Ali Sparkes
Genre:SF
Pages read:144



  This week I got carried on that instead of 50 pages, I read 144. I finished the book. The book gets very dramatic toward the end.


   ^   To continue where we left off, after the kids came back home, they found a note on the table from Uncle Jerome that he had to go to London to finish some stuff up. Al the kids suddenly felt something was not right. After that, they worked on teaching Polly and Freddy about 2009, and their cover story they are going to use from next week when they start school. They would be hippies which just came from the wild.
        That Saturday, they went to shop clothes and school stuff. Freddy was amazed by the Velcro shoes, which are without laces. On Sunday evening, Rachel was ironing her and Polly's clothes, while Polly was making dinner. At one moment, Rachel slammed down the iron, and shouted at Ben because she almost started ironing his stuff. Ben accepted and found out he was quite good at ironing. On the other hand, Freddy was horrible and Ben had to take over. After that, they had a delicious hot pot which Polly made. She said that she will learn everybody how to make hot pot, because that is not used in the modern days. They decided to go to bed. During the night, Rachel woke up and saw that Freddy was in the bathroom, bleeding again. She swore to Freddy she will not say a word.
        The next day, school began. The kids welcomed Freddy and Polly, but not such a warm welcome. One large mistake Polly made while she introduced herself was saying the word 'super' which is not used anymore. After that, everybody teased her because she is saying super. Freddy, on the other hand, had a very amusing introduction. He explained how to cook a rabbit. The teacher, unfortunately cut him off because she thought it was crossing the line. Nothing like that is not aloud in school. The kids were amazed. Ben noticed that some of the girls were looking at him already with love in their eyes. He got a lot of fans.
        After that, during lunch, they came face to face with the school bullies: Pincer twins, Rory O'Neal. The two boys got into a fight with these two bullies. The girls had to face Lorraine Kingsley, who teased Polly for 'super' the whole break. After one time, Polly said 'That's absolutely super'and while doing that, she spilled all her food on Lorraine's head. After the first day, all 4 ended up at the doctor.
    I am going to skip a bit because for a long time, nothing interesting happens. Now, in the next part, till the end, the book is not funny anymore, but it is still super. One day, after school, Ben and Freddy, he because Uncle Jerome hasn't come home yet, decided to go to Percival Shaw, to see if he knows something about their uncle. Rachel and Polly stayed home. When the boys entered Percival's house, they didn't find anyone. But, suddenly, Percival came out of the attic. The boys asked him why was he hiding. Percival explained that this morning, he saw the black car which he saw the day Freddy's and Polly's father disappeared. They came back for him and the kids. They were all in danger. At that moment, they all saw a couple of shadows outside the door. They also saw that in front of the house, the black car was parked. At that moment, somebody started shooting on them. The two boys escaped through the back door. We do not know what happened to Percival, he is not mentioned in the book anymore.
       Meanwhile, Polly and Rachel were completing a puzzle at home. They didn't know what was happening outside. At one moment the phone rang. Rachel answered, but nobody was there. It was stormy outside, so she predicted the bad weather influenced the line. Rachel went outside with Bess. When they got back in, Polly said she saw some shadows, but she thought it was lightning playing with
her eyes. Now, they exchanged worried looks. But, what came next, got them even more scared. The lock started turning on one of the doors. The two girls ran up to Uncle Jerome's bedroom. He had a computer in his room. Polly saw that there was a mail with the following heading:
Get out of the house, NOW!
The girls obeyed their uncle and climbed out of the window onto the roof and down to the garden. They decided that the safest place to hide was the chamber where they found the frozen coffins. When they entered, they noticed something very wrong. The door were open. The girls could not believe that the boys forgot to close the door behind them. Well, they didn't. Behind them was someone who we all expected to see in the book again. The librarian.
     The boys decided that the girls were also in great danger, so they ran home. On the way there, the Pincer twins came in their way, but they fell behind soon. At one point, Freddy suddenly stopped and held on to a tree. Ben saw that Freddy's nose was bleeding. But Freddy told him that it was not only the  nose, he couldn't see, he became blind. Now, it would be a shame to tell you what happens next because that would spoil your reading of this book. It gets very hairy, I can tell you that much. This book is worth reading.