Frozen Rodeo - Hardcover

Clark, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060090707 ISBN 13: 9780060090708

Publisher: HarperTeen, 2003

Synopsis

Summer is supposed to be fun.
Right?

Peggy Fleming Farrell's summer has taken a turn for the worse: She works at the Gas'n Git to pay back her parents for wrecking two cars, takes summer school French from a succession of increasingly lame substitute teachers, loves an IHOP waiter, and attends Lamaze class with her mother while her father prepares for his professional ice-skating comeback (read: midlife crisis).

Just when the only exciting event looming before her is the town's annual Rodeo Roundup Days -- "exciting" being a relative term -- things take an unexpected turn for the better. Between hijinks with a hijacked golf cart, plans for streaking at the Rodeo parade, and a showdown over pancakes, Peggy's summer becomes more about mayhem than money management, and definitely something close to fun. Even if she never learns to speak French.

About this title

About the Author

Catherine Clark is the author of Frozen Rodeo and Truth or Dairy. A native of western Massachusetts, she now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Reviews

Gr. 8-12. Peggy Fleming Farel, whose father is a former figure skater, faces a bleak summer before her senior year: a mind-numbing job at the Espress-Oh-Yes coffee counter in a local gas station, French classes from a string of incompetent teachers, revoked car privileges (after she crashed the family car), and seemingly endless family chores including baby-sitting for her three younger siblings. In her free time, P. F. rollerblades to The Lot, a local parking-lot hangout, where she and her friend Charlotte half-heartedly consider a cast of dull boys. The characters, their conversations, and their conflicts are so wholly unexceptional that, like P. F., some teens will tire of this summer of responsibility, boredom, and the occasional prank--until Clark livens things up with a hilarious, albeit completely implausible, conclusion. Other teens, however, may find the lack of drama refreshingly realistic. What's most authentic is P. F.'s voice, which nicely articulates teens' ambivalence toward romance and their fierce yearning to both love and separate from their exasperating families. Gillian Engberg
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Edition details

• Publisher: HarperTeen
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060090707
• ISBN 13: 9780060090708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304