- Science fiction, Cold war, Brothers and sisters, Cryonics
In present-day England, thirteen-year-old Ben and his twelve-year-old sister Rachel find two children who have been cryogenically frozen in a bomb shelter since 1956, and must prevent them from being discovered while helping them adjust to modern life.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ali Sparkes
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, FISCHER Taschenbuch, Oxford Childrens
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780192734006
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