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Suleikha Leo and Kai a group of 12 year olds known as The Freezies befriend the intriguing Mr Christaki a traveller who camps with his converted bus on their village green Exposed as an illegal immigrant from Syria he goes on the run with his four year old daughter The Freezies come up with a risky and audacious scheme to reveal his desperate plight on national TV and manage to rescue him The FreeziesThis rollicking contemporary novel features three kids two boys and a girl in a small town in England who connect with a vagrant music teacher and ultimately campaign to keep him from getting deported as an illegal immigrant. Book The freezies popsicles There s good writing From then on we d see Mr Christaki at a distance painting his trailer and things He padded about in his socks with holes We could see his toes like new potatoes. EBook The freezies treats There s even good poetry on occasion Think of a manFar from homeOr a child that s on the runYou say it s nothing to do with youBut it s something you have doneBirds fly where they wantTheir ceiling is the skyBut men are owned by countriesNo one can tell us why. Book The freezies And there are lots of ethnicities reflected among the characters The chapters are written in first person alternating between the three characters The little village itself is charming and interesting complete with a haunted house and eccentric woman deemed a witch. The freezerie erie A rival gang at school the Hotshots and a bigoted newspaper editor liven things up although the gang rivalry seems to peter out early in the story Issues like parents losing their jobs and villagers quick to think the worst of an accented man who appears in their midst offer food for thought social commentary between the lines. Book The freezies walmart The story s main weakness is its plethora of adults many of whom feel like main characters thereby all but overshadowing the children s roles Where most middle grade novels allow children to do heroic things with adults well in the background this one often has the children relying on their parents connections and skills It s also unlikely and over convenient that almost half the adults are former journalists who help tie up loose ends all too handily in final pages Further far from offering a linear plotline this story ambles into side stories a school play an allotment scandal that have little to do with the main story and detract from the pacing. The Freezies epub reader But perhaps most objectionable is the climax which revolves around a lie that the kids cook up to get television attention to save their teacher Sure the kids refer to all the guilt that goes with enacting their subterfuge and continually weigh it as the lesser of evils and emphasize the damage it does as well as its overall positive effect Even so I personally found it a highly questionable strategy to promote never mind entirely unrealistic in the way it achieves its goal Even if it is middle grade fiction: Book The freezies Think of lonelyPeople whoAre forced to run awayFrom poverty hunger crueltyThe dark clouds of the day, Freeze booking All that said it s an entertaining read and the characters are well drawn and mostly worth traveling the length of the book with.This review also appears at English