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Floe Ryan contracted a deadly disease when she was sixteen and died&but that isnt the end of her story. Its the beginning. Floe, you see, was vitrified (i.e. cryogenically frozen) at death and then thawed ten years later after a cure is found. In that ten years, she hasnt aged a bit, but the world around her definitely has.

For one thing, her parents were also vitrified (and are still frozen; Floe is the first to be thawed out) and her formerly younger sister Sunny is now her older sister (though she still clearly remembers every mean thing her then-older sister did to her). And the world? Its changed too; theres new technology and definitely new fashion trends.

Can I just say that I really, really hope Bev Katz Rosenbaum is wrong about the whole skintight unitard thing? Because I am soooo not wearing one of those.

If trying to fit in with the next generation of yuppie kids wasnt bad enough (Floe, after all, used to be a Venice Beach kind of gal), she finds out that the Cryogenics Center is under legal attack and may be shut down. If it is, that would mean her parents will never be thawed and cured. As bad as that would be by itself, it also means that shed be stuck with just Sunny.

Who still seems to be mad about the whole shaving-the-hair-off-her-dolls thing.

Then theres Taz, the only other un-frozen popsicle kid in existence. The same Taz that Floe used to have a crush on and who seems to be adjusting to this whole Brave New World better than Floe (especially the opposite sex).

Can Floe save the Center and her parents? Does Taz truly dig her or not? Will she ever fit in with these new kids? And can this former rollerblading queen ever figure out how to use these newfangled hoverskates?

Told in Floes slightly sarcastic voice, this is a super fun book with just the right amount of edge to it. Highly recommended for readers aged 12 and up, especially those of you who know what its like to not fit in (and hey, havent we all been there?).