The year was 1976, America's bicentennial, and Penelope Hawkins was just starting her summer in the small town of New Iberia after a brutally boring freshman year in high school. Penelope was smart and witty and ignored by most of her classmates who found her strange. Her mother whose main concern is Penelope's social life, is more of a best friend than a mother and her father is always away on business. Penelope had been fine on her own content with riding her bike,reading books, and sometimes talking to her cat Ginger until an unexpected friend pops into her life. What will Penelope do with this strange new experience? Will it only cause her trouble? Or will she let go for once and be happy? Step into the past and experience the 70s like you never have before.