Morgan is pretty relatable (from a mom-perspective): She’s thinking of herself and she’s booked with sports and she’s facing a lot of challenges that she doesn’t think her mom has any clue about. I enjoy some YA, yes I do.) My enjoyment of it might get it in the door and on the shelf, but that won’t get my girls to read it. You won’t find foul language or, really, anything worse than bullying–it’s mostly set in 1974 as Morgan navigates her mom’s life and wonders just when (and if!) she will get back to her own life.Īs a mom-reader, I’m the first to tell you that I am NOT the target reader for this book. There were quite a few entertaining scenes: Morgan waking up in her mom’s body was definitely one of them. I’ve had to explain to my own kids about how our phones used to be attached to locations (“You mean you didn’t take them with you?!?”) and we used to have to change channels using a dial (“Wait, what about the remote?”). Though the math doesn’t quite add up unless Mom had Morgan at age 46 (and maybe she did, we don’t know for sure), it is quite a bit entertaining as a mom-reader.
But in 2003, when it was in the movie theater and I took my niece to see it, I very much fangirled it.Īs the mom of teenage daughters, I’m as horrified as they are at the thought of body-switching.Īnything But Groovy, though, takes the body-switching to a different level than Freaky Friday: Daughter Morgan doesn’t just end up in her mom’s body, but she ends up in her mom’s time, as in 1974. It’s memorable in many ways, but to be honest, I’m not sure if, watching it now, I would laugh as hard or enjoy it as much. If you never watched Freaky Friday, it’s a 2003 movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsey Lohan. Anything But Groovy, by Amanda Lauer, is a YA novel that has me flashing back to the approximately 500 times I remember watching Freaky Friday.
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