It all started with a box of "Sweet Valley High" books.
These novels stood in contrast to the more serious topics handled in the YA of the 1970s—a decade defined by Judy Blume’s landmark children’s novels—and took residence in the minds of tweens before "Harry Potter" or the blockbuster dystopian trilogies of the 2000s came along. But although the concerns of the YA novels of the 80s and 90s may seem trivial to us now, Moss says it was their very pulp-absurdity that captured their young audiences.
She pointed out that this series also focused strongly on the female friendships of the young protagonists.
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