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Fighting Over the Card Catalog

A snarky look back on YA novels of the 80's and 90's

Mar 27, 2020

Happy World Theatre Day! We're celebrating this week with the seminal classic Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild.

Are the Fossil girls precursors to the Royal Tenenbaums? And there HAS to be some shady shit going on with Gum, right?

Plus, our pandemic update, trying to find some good in it, #firstworldsuburbanproblems and...


Mar 20, 2020

Obviously we start this week with our pandemic update. But no worries! Miracles fix all illness! At least that's what we learn this week in Angels Watching Over Me by Lurlene McDaniel.

Plus sexy buggy rides! Very questionable Bible memories! And, as always, more reasons to become a teenage hypochondriac!

Thanks for...


Mar 13, 2020

Happy St. Patrick's Day! No shenanigans here this week, we've got economic hardships and rampant sickness. Is it a modern novel?? No, we're back in 1845 Ireland, by way of 1990's Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna.

It's a wild journey through the Irish countryside during the famine, with the poor...


Mar 6, 2020

What's the difference between creeping and crawling? Nobody knows! Especially not Mallory, our sweet baby nerd, and newest member of the BSC cult!

We also meet the prodigy ballerina herself, Jessi, whose very existence exposes the racism in our seemingly perfect Stoneybrook. 

Plus K!I!D!S! Looks like we made it! It's...