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It's About Time
A teenage brother and sister are transported back in time to 1955 when their own parents were teenagers.
170 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1984
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October 7, 2013
Absolutely my favorite book when I was young. I picked it up hoping for some similarity to the Back to the Future films. I didn't learn until years later that this very book served as a loose inspiration for the screenwriters on first film of the BTTF series. It's still a great book on its own merits as well.
July 16, 2026
Stop me if you've heard this one before:
80s teen (two of them, in this case) travel through time to the 50s and accidentally interfere with the parents first meeting and then has to fix said thwarted meeting before their very existence is erased and then make it back home to, well, the future.
If that sounds familiar to you, then you'll probably agree the screenwriters of the version of this story you're no doubt familiar with owe this author some royalties.
80s teen (two of them, in this case) travel through time to the 50s and accidentally interfere with the parents first meeting and then has to fix said thwarted meeting before their very existence is erased and then make it back home to, well, the future.
If that sounds familiar to you, then you'll probably agree the screenwriters of the version of this story you're no doubt familiar with owe this author some royalties.
November 20, 2017
3.5*\5.
it was fun to read the book that “loosely inspired”, Back to the Future.
it was fun to read the book that “loosely inspired”, Back to the Future.
June 7, 2009
Inoffensive but slight time travel back to the 50s.
March 14, 2016
This is the story Back to the Future is based on-- but the movie definitely did it better
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