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Throwback by Maurene Goo
4.5
adventurous hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: Yes

This is a Back to the Future story without the ick factor--and with brown people (other than Chuck Berry getting his sound from a white teen boy Columbusing Johnny Be Goode). Samantha feels misunderstood by her mom and idolizes her grandmother--until a wacky taxi takes her to school--in 1995. The GenZ take on live GenX culture is funny.