Pretty in Punxsutawney by Laura Boyle Crompton - ADVISABLE

Pretty in Punxsutawney by Laura Boyle Crompton, 304 pages.  Blink, JAN 2019.  $18.

Content: G (1 swear, 0 ‘f’) 

BUYING ADVISORY:  MS, HS - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Andie and her family moved to Punxsutawney during the summer and Andie immediately found a romantic interest in Colton, who works at the local movie theater – though he doesn’t seem to see Andie that way.  Now the first day of school has arrived and 80’s movie loving mother has convinced her to wear a pink polka-dot dress ala Pretty in Pink to school.  After the maximum first day disaster Andie is ready to slink off to school the next day and lay low for the rest her life.  But – what?  It’s the first day of school all over again!  Andie is somehow stuck in a time loop.  If she doesn’t figure out what the universe wants for her, how many years will she spend repeating that first awful day?

References to Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (did you know he spent about 30 years in that loop?) and every Molly Ringwald movie abound.  This would make a pretty cute update to Murray movie for sure.  Andie recreates herself as a cheerleader in one series of days and as a bass guitar rocker chick in another.  A great romp to read.  I’m glad I read it soon after I reread Oh My Goth by Gena Showalter – similar flavors of goodness. 

Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS