I Was a Teenage Popsicle [Paperback]

Bev Katz Rosenbaum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2006

Teenage girls always want to be cool. But frozen is another story.

Floe Ryan was frozen-or 'vitrified'-at sixteen. She and her parents had a rare disease, so it was their only choice until a cure was found. Now she's been thawed and it's ten years in the future-but she's still a teenager. And her parents are still chilling out...

So now her little sister is her older sister, and she's making Floe suffer for every snotty thing she ever did. It's hard getting used to...not to mention a new school, new technology, and a zillion other new things that happened while she was napping in the freezer. Luckily, she has Taz, the hottie skater boy who was a popsicle too, so they get to reintegrate together. But now they're trying to close the Venice Beach Cryonics Center-with Floe's parents still in it! It's up to her to save the clinic and her parents-so she can finally have a somewhat normal life.

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About the Author

Bev Katz Rosenbaum, a former fiction and magazine editor, lives in Toronto with her husband and two children. She hopes to spend the rest of her life channeling her inner sixteen year old and writing teen chick lit novels.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (October 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425211800
• ISBN-13: 978-0425211809
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,258,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun book about the near future, May 17, 2009

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This review is from: I Was a Teenage Popsicle (Paperback)

A great introduction to young readers about 21st century science and the exciting field of cryonics.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Liv's Book Reviews, August 22, 2008

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This review is from: I Was a Teenage Popsicle (Paperback)

I have mixed feelings about this book. Overall, I don't think the writing or the plot was particularly remarkable, but there was something in it all that drew me in. I wasn't flipping pages manically or anything like that, but it was interesting enough that I wanted to keep reading. I think the whole futuristic world that the author created was a little far-fetched, but it was just wacky enough to be fun and entertaining to read about. The unitards, sked-pets, and hover blades probably won't happen in the next ten years, but there's a thing about the future world that is undeniably drawing to me. You know how your parents told you stories about how things were so much different in their childhood? It'll be cool to see the stories we're telling our children in 20 years. Will they be as appalled at our ruggedness as we were by our parents'? I think that single aspect of the book was what drew me in. Because really, other than that, there wasn't anything hugely amazing about the story. The plot was predictable as was Taz and Flo's relationship, and the ending was perfect and happy. There needed to be lots more excitement, but I think the book did fine because of its actual subject matter. So although I Was a Teenage Popsicle wasn't terrific, it wasn't horrendous either. I'd recommend it and I myself will try to get to reading the sequel, Beyond Cool, soon.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun teen futuristic tale, May 17, 2007

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Kim Baccellia, "YA Books Central reviewer... (Southern California) - See all my reviews

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Imagine waking up ten years later and finding out, while your friends are now young adults, you've still a teenager.

I WAS A TEENAGE POPSICLE by Bev Katz Rosenbaum is about Floe, a sixteen-year-old, who wakes up ten years later after being 'vitrified', or frozen until a cure comes for a rare disease. If that's not bad enough, she has to live with her now 'older sister' and try to fit in her high school where the Star Trek look is all the rage. Her parents are still 'chilling out' and might not be awaken if this one congressman has his way.

Funny and upbeat, I found myself turning the pages wanting to know how Floe will deal with the Mean Girls of the future and still find a way to save her parents. I think teens will enjoy this book and relate with the issues Floe and her guy friend Taz go through while readjusting to life.