Tuesday, 1 February 2011

'Frozen in Time' by Ali Sparkes.



Ever wondered what it would be like in 50 years? Ever wanted to be frozen in time? Meet Rachel and Ben. Their uncle is a scientist and he is looking after them when they’re on holiday and their parents are out of town. It has been raining the whole time until one day and they rush out in to the garden which is like a forrest. They go to their treehouse and Ben spots something: a wheel. They try to turn it : they clean it, oil it, and everything they could think of. Then suddenly it starts to turn and it opens a door. They go in and there is a hall with doors all the way down. They walk to the end and open it but a old but loud voice says, "Do not enter". They jump back and Ben opens the door more and he figures out that it is a tape so he turns it off. It was in a 1950's style with and old sofa, old carpet, old everything. The see another door that is plain white and nothing special. Ben opens it and there is another hall with doors and a bunk bed on the right hand side and they walk down. The first door was into a kitchen and it had lots and lots of cans of spam and other things. The second door was into a bathroom but there was a door in the bathroom and they opened that and it was a science room with lots of notebooks with science stuff in them and computers were very old. Ben starts looking through the notebooks and Rachel is sitting looking at the computers and she sees a switchboard and she sees a red button flickering and she presses it! The switch opens two big tubes which have two children, a boy and a girl, frozen in them! The door locks and they can't get out. What will happen? Will they die? Who is frozen in the tubes? Why are they in there? Who put them there? And will they get out?


Mellisa McNeal