Frozen Rodeo

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Summary: A laugh-out-loud, pee-your-pants must have!
Review: A wild and humorous tale of summer, Frozen Rodeo will have you peeing your pants with laughter. Though I have not read other works by Catherine Clark this book made me a huge fan of her and I look forward to more by this great author. Fleming and Company's antics are chocked full of laughs. This is a must have book for anyone, so go buy it!

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Summary: Can Fleming¿s life, like, get any worse?
Review: Fleming is stuck in the summer from hell. No driver's license, due to two car accidents. A Doberman who wants to take a chunk out of her. A crap job pouring java at the Gas N Git. An Olypmic hopeful father who wants her to trade her roller blades for ice skates like her namesake Peggy Fleming. A summer school French course whose instructor is MIA. Constant last minute babysitting for snot-nosed siblings. A pancake house waiter who seems to have forgotten she exists. Lamaze with her mother. Can Fleming's life, like, get any worse?
Whip a little more drama to this concoction: her dad is working on a secret program for the annual Rodeo Days that includes livestock on ice, and a bunch of gas stations in the area are getting held up.
In spite of all this, ambitious, overextended Fleming manages to confront a jerk, come clean with her parents, create a dent in the debt she owes for car repairs, make new friends, learn a little French, and sink a golf cart. With humor and wit, Catherine Clark shows how one teen rises above her own angst and self-centeredness to make her cow town a place worth living in, not just to escape from.

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Summary: Attention SmalltownTeenagers
Review: Frozen Rodeo is a book about a teenage girl that lives in a small hometown. She faces many problems like boys, French class, Rodeo Days, a job, and dealing with her mother's pregnancy. In the small town though, she doesn't have a lot of things to do in her spare time. All the adventures and daily problems she goes through makes for an excellent book full of drama with some comedy.
The part I liked about this book was how I could relate to the main character in many ways. Being a teenager from a small town like she was, I could understand jokes and remarks she'd make. Also the imagery was well described so you can easily get a picture in your head. However, one thing I didn't like about the book was how the author would drag things out at parts. I prefer a book that's exciting at every part. If you have ever read the book When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, you would enjoy this book because it has a lot of the same type of comedy. Also, the small town setting makes them have the same feel. I would recommend reading this book if you are a teenage girl. You'll understand more of where the main character is coming from and dealing with.

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Summary: Stellar Roundup
Review: FROZEN RODEO is Catherine Clark's best book to date. Written in first person present tense, it focuses on a teenager named Peggy. Middle name, Fleming. Her father is an amateur figure skater turned real estate agent and her mother is a very pregnant weather forecaster. Due to her father's career, the children all have been named in honor of famous skaters. The five year old twins are named Torvill and Dean. The quiet and thoughtful three year old is called Dorothy. That in itself is sure to crack up any skating fan - but wait, there's more.

Peggy, who opts to go by Fleming, has a very interesting summer. After getting into multiple car accidents - in which she remains unscathed, but sadly cannot say the same for the vehicles - she is no longer allowed to drive and gets a job at the local Gas 'n' Git to pay her father back. Meanwhile, she takes a French class taught by a string of unqualified substitutes, fights her attraction for the cute waiter at IHOP, befriends a girl named Charlotte with a wild streak and bickers with her co-worker, Denny, who has an obsession with U2 and often attempts to look, sound and act like his idol, Bono.

Anyone who has ever lived in a small town and dreamed of getting out of it will echo Fleming's thoughts about her city; anyone who has felt pressured to take care of their younger siblings will sympathize with her family plight. This book is all I have been talking about for days, and I will continue to yak about it until the cows come home. With a solid ending that ties every subplot and character together, I give FROZEN RODEO a perfect score.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I loved the books "Truth or Dairy" and "Wurst Case Scenario" which are both by Catherine Clark, but I was disappointed by "Frozen Rodeo."

Peggy Fleming Farrel (or, as she likes to be called, Fleming) has a pretty abnormal life. She works as a coffee girl at Gas 'n' Git, the local gas station. She's working to pay her parents back for the two cars she's ruined in car accidents, so she has to give them most of her paychecks. Besides working all summer, she's also taking a French class to be closer to Steve, the guy she likes. In her French class, she keeps getting substitutes that don't speak a word of French, and the real teacher is M.I.A. In her French class she meets Charlotte, who teaches her a lot about being different.

Fleming's mom is pregnant with the fifth kid, and she has to attend Lamaze class with her mom. As if that wasn't weird enough, her dad's an ice skater, and is planning on skating at the popular rodeo in town every summer.

Though Fleming is trying to impress Steve, she meets - and falls - for someone else...his best friend.

This books is really funny, but I was disappointed to see it had a similar plot line to "Truth or Dairy"

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Summary: frozen rodeo
Review: Peggy (AKA Fleming) expects the summer before her senior year in high school to be horrible. After crashing the family car twice, her parents force her to get a job as a coffee server at a local gas station, Git and Go, to repay them. In her spare time, she is taking summer school french, to grwduate early and get out of her hometown, Lindville (which is basically a gignatic beef processing center). She also is supposed to help her mother prepare for the birth of another child and babysit for the others. The only part of her summer she looks forward to is wooing her longtime crush, Steve Gopher, while he works at IHOP. However, this hope is quickly dashed when he a Jacqui ( a "ditzy" blonde) become a couple, and Peggy is left out. However, she forges new friendships, Denny (an obsessive U2 fan), Mike ( Steve's best friend who becomes her romantic interest throughout the summer) and Charlotte ( a girl with a definate "wild streak", as the book puts it). Whether it is Denny and Peggy stopping a robbery, making-out with Mike in a carwash or streaking through the lindville rodeo parade with Charlotte, Peggy has these and countless other comical adventures during the summer that prove that things don't always go as planned, but will turn out for the best.
Though this book may seem like a typical young adult book, it offers much more. The adventures are unique and crazy ( No car, so steal a golf cart), and the characters are brilliantly well-developed. Extrodinarily comical moments make this fast-paced read a must read for anyone.

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Summary: Oh What a "Rodeo"
Review: Peggy Fleming Farrell is stuck working as a coffee wench at the Gas `n Git when all she wants to go is grab some gas and git out of Dodge before her father, Patrick Farrell, involves her in his skating comeback. Then there's Peggy's mom, queen of weather and radio broadcasting, who seems to think Peggy hasn't got a responsible bone in her body even as she rushes out the door leaving Peggy to watch "The Little Mermaid" again with her younger siblings. Then there's Peggy's desperate crush and the agony of small-town America, but a la Dorothy, Peggy's going to learn that there's no place like the rodeo.


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Summary: Her Life Is Literally A Frozen Rodeo
Review: Peggy Fleming. Not your typical 16 year old teenager. With problems that are not even hers, such as her dad being a skater and trying to make his comeback, and her mom being a weather announcer on KLDV radio who is also expecting another baby. How will she make it through the problems that ARE hers? She works at Gas 'N Git, there is a robber on the loose that robs gas stations, gives her parents her paycheck so she can pay them back for the two car accidents she caused, and watches her siblings. Also, she is obsessed with Steve Gropher, has no friend in town for the summer, goes to french class were the teacher never shows up and gets substitutes that do not even speak French, and has to take a bus with a crazy driver because she has no car. But one of the biggest problems is that the Rodeo Days are coming to town in Lindville, which she hates. I like this book because the author leaves you hanging there wondering what is going to happen next and then picks you right back up again. Also, she ties everything together and makes this story relate to most teenage girls.

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Summary: By a teenager awaiting her own summer experience with a job
Review: This book is definitely a fun one. Peggy Flemming Pharrel leads you on a seemingly uneventful summer that takes its twists and turns, from her job at the Gas 'N Git to summer French class with her teacher who never shows up to robbers, boys, and the everfamous Coffee Breath and Kamakaze Bus Driver. By the end of this book, I was literally squealing with curiousity and wishing to God I could read faster! You'll definitely get sucked into the world of escaped bulls and streaking on a motorcycle.

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Summary: A GREAT read!
Review: This book is one that most teens can relate to, especially if you live in a small town and have a small town festival. There are some parts that are very unrealistic, but this book made me laugh out loud while I was reading it. A great summer read book--you won't be disappointed!