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This week we discuss BSC 17 Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery. We get a HARDCORE Fashion Alert, Steven's a snitch, and apparently, Jess is a terrible person to watch movies with.
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This week we pay homage to the wonderful Beverly Cleary with Ramona and Her Father. We discuss how relatable the Quimbys are, childhood anxiety, and just...so much smoking!
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Time to introduce Steven to the American Girls series!! And we dare to ask the question...should Jiggy Nye just have smoked the devil's lettuce?
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Hormones! Mental health! Both Anastasia's and ours!
Plus bonus exploding gerbils! Or maybe they're ghosts!
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We're back? We're back!
And we're back with Jessi's very first book, with shitty parents and bullshit ballet for Jess to get mad about!
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We jump into the pageant circuit this week in BSC 15 Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn by Ann M. Martin. It's a good book, but Steven needs to re-write it with his own Great Idea.
We also discuss Jess's BRIEF pageant moment, Steven's worst injury, and check in with Ann to make sure she's doing ok during the pandemic.
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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 Jess gets down with the kids on TikTok
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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!
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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 O'Driscoll kids. It'll make you want to drown their sorrows in a Guinness, that's for sure.
But it's not all doom and gloom! Jess and Steven recount their trip to the North Texas Teen Book Festival, where Jess fan-girled HARD over some big Baby-Sitters Club connections!
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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 Kids Incorporated! (For serious, if anyone is interested in doing a Kids Inc pod, about the show, not the copy-cat club, hit me up!)
And wash ya damn hands! But Don't Panic!
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"Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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