Though researching this book was primarily a matter of calling out sick from work so that I could read The Dollhouse Murders, a number of texts about young adult and middle grade literature proved immeasurably helpful. Whether they placed the books I was reading in a larger historical context, illuminated issues the YA publishing industry has been grappling with for decades, or simply revealed how your teen book sausage gets made, I couldn’t have written Paperback Crush without them.

Boesky, Amy. “The Ghost Writes Back.” Kenyon Review Online, Winter 2013. https://www.kenyonreview.org/​kr-online-​issue/​2013-winter/​selections/​amy-boesky-656342.

Boyes, Kathleen. “The Queen of Teen Romance: How Francine Pascal Built an Empire Without Writing a Single ‘Sweet Valley’ Book.” Chicago Tribune, October 2, 1991.

Carpan, Carolyn. Sisters, Schoolgirls and Sleuths: Girls’ Series Books in America. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Cart, Michael. From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Hinton, S. E. “Teen-Agers Are for Real.” New York Times, August 27, 1967.

Larrick, Nancy. “The All-White World of Children’s Books.” Saturday Review, September 11, 1965.

Marcus, Leonard S., ed. Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

Pattee, Amy. Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Swerdloff, Alexis. “Ann M. Martin on the Enduring Appeal of The Baby-Sitters Club and Rebooting Another Children’s Series.” Vulture.com, September 5, 2016. http://www.vulture.com/​2016/​09/​ann-m-martin-missy-piggle-wiggle.html.