Paperback Crush : The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

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This book is so unbelievably fun to read if you are exactly in the 33-38 range or have a bizarre fondness for that campy era of tween/teen novels that gave us the monstrous Wakefield twins and an extremely serious babysitters' club. A great companion to Grady Hendrix's Paperbacks from Hell, Moss ...

from lycomayflower

A large format book with glossy pages, Paperback Crush is a light history of... teen fiction from the 80s and 90s. Moss traces the trends in "teen" fiction at the time, discusses how that fiction reflected the concerns of kids and parents in those years, and offers interviews with and insights in...

from keristars

I don't know about "totally radical" as a desciptor, but Paperback Crush is a perfectly enjoyable nostalgia-review of the paperback books of my childhood. The many different kinds of books Gabrielle Moss discusses were often influential to publishing, and definitely influential for the developing...

from LibrarianRyan

I am crushing on this book and it totally deserves it. It is not only a nostalgia book of my childhood paperback collection, but an indepth look at the various things that made 80s and 90s YA tick. It is broken down into sections like romance, jobs, family, mystery and horror. And for each page i...

from LibrarianRyan

I am crushing on this book and it totally deserves it. It is not only a nostalgia book of my childhood paperback collection, but an indepth look at the various things that made 80s and 90s YA tick. It is broken down into sections like romance, jobs, family, mystery and horror. And for each page i...