PAPERBACK CRUSH dives in deep to this golden age with affection, history, and a little bit of snark. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Published by Quirk Books on October 30, 2018Įvery twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction By Gabrielle Moss
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