Jane and Taffy find a baby abandoned on the front steps of their school and become overnight celebrities.

For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the ’80s and ’90s—short, cheap, and utterly adored. In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. Let Paperback Crush lead you on a visual tour of nostalgia-inducing book covers from the library stacks of the past.

Jana finds a wallet but decides to return it to where she found it - that's when Taffy sees her and blackmails her into becoming her personal slave.

Jana Morgan and her club, The Fabulous Five, set out to uncover the identity of Jana's secret admirer.

Telling Taffy's version of the story about her rivalry with The Fabulous Five, the ninth Taffy Sinclair title opens during the last week of school at Mark Twain Elementary. When Taffy's diary is removed from her locker, the whole sixth grade learns the truth about her.

Jana and her four sixth-grade friends are out to give gorgeous Taffy Sinclair a little competition. But their attempt ends in disaster and Jana finds she has four new enemies.

Taffy has just landed the role in the TV movie about a beautiful girl whose life at school is made miserable by friends who despise her.

When gorgeous, conceited Taffy Sinclair wins a part on a television soap opera, eleven-year-old Jana's jealousy skyrockets until she begins to mix television fantasy with real life.

Having made a TV movie in Hollywood, Taffy Sinclair comes back to Wakeman Junior High. But life seems pretty ordinary after the movie set, and Taffy can't help feeling different. Then she learns that the TV movie will become a prime-time series and the producer wants her to play the star.