Line #1 Literature/HanginOutWithCici


1	''Hangin' Out with Cici'' (also published under the title ''My Mother Was Never a Kid''), is a rather obscure [[TheSeventies 1977]] [[YoungAdultLiterature young adult novel]] by Francine Pascal, best known as the creator of the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book series. It was adapted into an [[Series/AfterschoolSpecial ABC Afterschool Special]], under the aforementioned alternate title, in [[TheEighties 1981.]]
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3	The premise is that protagonist Victoria Martin, a [[{{Delinquents}} teenage delinquent]] whose mother has given up trying to control her, is sent [[TimeTravel back in time]] to TheForties, where she meets her mom as a teenager, [[GenerationXerox who acts much the same as she does, back in 1977.]]
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5	The novel received two sequels, ''My First Love & Other Disasters'' (1979) and ''Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo!'' (1985). They scrapped the unique TimeTravel story of the original for [[ClicheStorm generic romance plots]], and are even ''more'' obscure than the original, which is really saying something.
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8	!!This novel contains examples of:
9	* AllJustADream: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; both Victoria and Cici remember their weekend together, and Cici actually uses her knowledge of an event that happened then to blackmail the principal into not expelling Victoria. (Yes, her mother remembers meeting her own daughter ''before Victoria was even born.'' [[TimeyWimeyBall Try wrapping your brain around that.]])
10	* BigApplesauce: Where the novel takes place, in both 1977 and 1944. It makes good use of it too, pointing out the differences between the decades (comparing the old Penn Station and the new one, for example).
11	* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:Victoria has matured and grown out of her delinquency by the novel's end. Her mom is closer to her now, too.]]
12	* {{Delinquent}}: Victoria is a classic one - she incites riots, [[SirSwearsALot swears up a storm]] (but not any of the ''really'' bad words; this is a Seventies teen book, after all), and [[DrugsAreBad smokes pot]].
13	* DrugsAreBad: Victoria's casual pot smoking is treated as a character flaw for her to overcome.
14	* TheForties: The decade Victoria to which travels back in time.
15	* GenerationXerox: Victoria's mother acts exactly as she does as a teenager.
16	* InflationNegation: Victoria gets a pretty good meal for a dime once she ends up in TheForties.
17	* PoorMansPorn: Near the middle of the book, Cici tells Victoria she knows how to get ''Literature/TropicOfCancer''. The book was un-banned by Victoria's time, so she's not impressed.
18	* ShownTheirWork: There are a surprising amount of period references, from ''Kilroy Was Here'' graffiti being everywhere, to Cici collecting tin foil scraps from cigarette packs for the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII War Effort,]] and so on.
19	* SirSwearsALot: Victoria is a RareFemaleExample. [[RuleAbidingRebel She doesn't say the strongest profanity like ''fuck'' and ''cunt'', though.]]
20	* TimeTravel: Rather unusually for a teen novel from TheSeventies.

Context Literature / HanginOutWithCici