Book Summary
From author Laurie Boyle Crompton comes Pretty in Punxsutawney, the story of 17-year-old Andie who’s stuck repeating her first day at a new school over and over. Andie’s convinced she needs true love’s kiss to break the curse but instead discovers how a high school filled with cliques and misfits can find common ground despite their differences.
About the Book
The only thing worse than the first day of senior year at a new high school is reliving it over, and over again. This ?Groundhog Day? meets Pretty in Pink mashup has Andie using all of her film knowledge to find out how to break the curse. Could it be true love's first kiss? Or is it reconciling with her own misconceptions? Only time will tell.
Andie is the type of girl who always comes up with the perfect thing to say … after it’s too late to say it. In a disastrous first day full of mishap at her new high school in Punxsutawney, PA, she just wants to disappear. Her passion and knowledge of movies — from rom coms to suspense and everything in between — made her think a fresh start would be easy, and maybe lead to her first kiss. When she wakes up caught in an endless loop of her first day at her new school, Andie decides to take matters into her own hands and find a way to stop the time loop — whatever it takes.
Convinced the curse will be broken when she meets her true love, Andie embarks on a mission: infiltrating the various cliques—from the jocks to the nerds to the misfits—to find the one boy who can break the spell. What she discovers along the way is that people who seem completely different can often share the very same hopes, dreams, and hang-ups. And that even a day that has been lived over and over can be filled with unexpected connections and plenty of happy endings.
Pretty in Punxsutawney:
- Includes tropes of — coming of age, first kiss, first crush, true love, and misfits
- Addresses social issues of self-discovery, navigating cliques, and overcoming stereotypes
- Is an homage to beloved 80s movies, such as John Hughes’?The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles,?and?Pretty in Pink?
- Is perfect for fans of This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender or The Do-Over by Jennifer Honeybourn
- Is a 2020 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Reviews
A fun take on a well-loved story, Pretty in Punxsutawney introduces us to Andie, a high school senior starting a new school who finds herself repeating the first day over and over, a la Groundhog Day. As the day keeps looping, Andie gets the opportunity to spend time with and learn about many of her new classmates. In seeing them as individuals, and not as just members of different social groups, Andie realizes that they are as similar as they are different.
Pretty in Punxsutawney is a solid commentary on looking past differences to find the similar threads that unite us all. Readers will find themselves cheering for Andie in her plans to bring together the different social groups in her high school. Filled with iconic '80s movie references, one epic nursing home party, and, of course, a pretty pink dress, Pretty in Punxsutawney will leave readers wanting to revisit their favorite old movies and hoping that just like in those movies, Andie, too, will get her own happy ending.
Pretty in Punxsutawney is a fun ride through iconic '80s movies and modern high school culture that will leave readers cheering for Andie to unite the school, break the loop, kiss the swoon-worthy boy, and find her happy ending.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9780310762164
- ISBN 10: 0310762162
- Imprint: Blink
- On Sale: 2019-01-15
- Pages: 304
- List Price: $17.99
- Publisher: Blink
- Publication Date: 2019-01-15
- Category 1 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
- Category 2 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Performing Arts / Film
- Category 3 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age
- Category 4 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Clean & Wholesome
- Category 5 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / General
- Category 6 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
- Category 7 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Loners & Outcasts
- Category 8 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy
