FREEZE TAG BY CAROLINE B. COONEY (1992)

Meghan loves playing with the family next door. Thereās West, Tuesday and Brown and their parents who always buy kid friendly foods and donāt mind people spending the night. Theyāre all hanging out one day when Lannie from across the street comes over. None of the kids like Lannie because sheās weird, has dull looking hair and is really pale. Theyāre all kind of bitchy to her, like West wonāt take her for a ride on the lawn mower and Tuesday wonāt let her spend the night. Lannie makes the kids play freeze tag and they discover that she can actually freeze people, which she does to all of them. When she lets West out, he demands that she unfreeze the others, including Meghan who Lannie really hates. She does, but makes him promise that heāll always like her ābestā. Freeze Tag then cuts to the future when the kids are teenagers in high school. Meghan and West are now one of those couples that you despise because theyāre so cute. Theyāre constantly giggling together, talking on the phone ...