Freeze Frame
by Heidi Ayarbe

    FREEZE FRAME by Heidi Ayarbe
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  10/7/08
    Publisher:  HarperTeen
    Reviewed by:  Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen
    Rating:  5 Stars


    No matter how hard he tries, Kyle just can’t figure out that one scene that completes the movie he feels like he’s in.

    He has the beginning scenes. The first scene where Kyle and his best friend, Jason, are eating pancakes. As
    always, Jason uses up all of the syrup, making Kyle’s dad go out and buy some more. After a little quarrel between
    the two, followed by an insult to his sister, Kyle and Jason run outside into the freezing cold. Not wanting to go
    back in, Kyle suggests the shed.

    Once inside the shed everything goes blank - from here Kyle just cannot figure out the scene, the most important
    scene.

    After the blackout, it's complete chaos - there’s blood, calling 911, an ambulance, a trip to the hospital, and then
    off to a holding cell. Questioned, confused, Kyle just doesn’t understand what has happened, or how it happened.

    How he killed his best friend.

    No matter how hard he tries, Kyle just cannot figure out the one scene that explains it all, the scene that decides
    whether he is innocent or not, the scene that ended with his best friend dead. Yet, if he can figure it all out, is it the
    end of the world for him, can he live with knowing the truth, or will it be too much for him to handle?

    With brief interruptions of past events that Kyle and Jason shared, Heidi Ayarbe takes us on a breathtaking and
    thrilling journey of a boy trying to solve a mystery that leaves even the reader at the edge of their seats. Ayarbe
    creates a work of art using realistic thoughts and images that helps in developing a novel that will be gripped in the
    reader’s hands until the very last page.

    FREEZE FRAME is a great debut from a talented new author.