Spies v. Pirates

I know you've been lying awake at night wondering, "Spies versus pirates: who would win?"

After five days of my latest junior high fiction display, I'm here to tell you: spies all the way.

I can barely scrabble up enough spy books to keep the display semi-stocked. Meanwhile, not a single one of those pirate books has budged all week.

In fairness to pirates, our multiple copies of Kenneth Oppel's Airborn and Skybreaker are all checked out, as is Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Peter and the Starcatchers series.

Then again, so are 85% of our Alex Rider books, all our copies of Ally Carter's Gallagher Girl series, all our Young James Bond, and Jennifer Barnes' The Squad series.

I think the spies still come out ahead.