Frozen in Time

Ben and Rachel Corder are sure they're in for the longest, dullest summer ever, until they discover an underground vault at the bottom of their garden with an amazing secret inside - two children from the 1950s who have been asleep for decades. But waking up Freddy and Polly Emerson means unearthing the secrets that were buried with them. Why would their father leave them frozen? How is cryonic suspension even possible? Why doesn't the world know about the process fifty years later? How will the Emersons ever fit into the 21st century world of cell phones and microwave dinners? And why does it feel like they're all suddenly being followed? Winner of Blue Peter's Book That I Couldn't Put Down and Book of the Year Award 2010 . Ben and Rachel discover the frozen figures of Freddy and Polly in an underground vault. The children have been in cryonic suspension since 1956, and awake to life in the 21st century, where they must search for their father, and discover why he left them frozen in time. Suggested level: primary, intermediate. In present-day England, thirteen-year-old Ben and his twelve-year-old sister Rachel find two children who have been cryogenically frozen in a bomb shelter since 1956, and must prevent them from being discovered while helping them adjust to modern life.