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♦ A 2024 Spirit of Texas Reading List Book

“A warm, engaging coming-of-age tale with a sprinkle of magic.” - Kirkus

“With affection and humor, Ormsbee takes on a time-loop telling via an Austin eighth grader whose first day of school just won’t quit.” - Publishers Weekly

★ “Readers looking to broaden their LGBTQIA+ middle-grade romance collections with a witty, offbeat voice should loop back around to this title.” - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED REVIEW

“A compulsively readable and laugh-out-loud story about identity, family, and how even a 'perfect' day can be messy. I rooted for Vivian on every Monday, and truly fell in love with this book along the way!” - Katryn Bury, author of the Drew Leclair mysteries

Groundhog Day meets Eighth Grade in this time-loop story set on the first day of school, from the critically acclaimed author of Candidly Cline.

Vivian Lantz is cursed.

 Every year, terrible things happen on her first day of school—and her first day of eighth grade makes the rest of them look like child’s play. Her family’s house floods in a sudden rainstorm. She ruins her perfect outfit before she even walks through the school doors. She almost kills her teacher’s fish. And if all of that weren’t upsetting enough, she gets her first period in the middle of the school cafeteria. Vivian can’t wait to put it all behind her.

But instead of waking up to a brand-new day, Vivian gets stuck reliving her catastrophic one. Curse: 9,000–Vivian: 0. Then she sees her misfortune for what it really is—a golden opportunity to fix her mistakes. But when her second chance turns into a third, and a fourth, and a fifth, Vivian might have to let go of the perfect day of her dreams . . . and make a few surprising choices along the way.