Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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BlackRaven

Reading, writing and alligator wrestling are passions of mine. 2018 was my first year participating and looking forward to 2019. Can't wait to see what new finds I will be finding! (Always a fun & crazy kid!)

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Being the Man of the House

Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith

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Looking at Keeping the Night Watch I figured it was going to be like Nikki Grimes or Nikki Giovanni. However, what it is like is a mix of both Grimes, Giovanni and Jason Reynolds, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Jacqueline Woods and what I think Kwame Alexander sounds like. I was unfamiliar with Hope Anita Smith before getting this gem in my shiny green package (see Go Sports Ball! review). However, unlike the others, this was not a new book but from 2008 (paper 2014). I am hoping this means there is a new edition coming out. Of course, it could just […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:130 |

Go Sports Ball!

Home Run, Touchdown, Basket, Goal!: Sports Poems for Little Athletes  by  Leo Landry

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I have done my auntly duty flattening my tail-feathers on benches and bleachers, gotten eye and neck strain from trying to see a 9-year-old out in right field, been rained on, sunburned and eaten alive by a mosquito or two watching nephews playing sports. And while I can tell the difference between a puck and the goalie (usually) and which football Americans vs. Europeans are talking about, I am not a sports person.  However, the other day, one of the publishes sent me a large, (shiny!) green package with some recently published books. One of those was Home Run, Touchdown, […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:129 |

Three might be company, but four is one too many

Just Jamie by Terri Libenson

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Terri Libenson has several middle-school novels in her Emmie & Friends series. First we saw Invisible Emmie, then Positively Izzy and now we have Just Jamie. And while each book ties into the others, each is a standalone story as well. Done in a slightly nontraditional graphic novel format, Libenson creates a slightly idealistic (things are wrapped up nicely, certain convenient events happen to move the story along) but also a realistic view of Middle School. Jamie has her group of friends. Three of them have known each other for years. Then a new girl comes along, and they let […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:128 |

Gotta get Busy busy busy

Olive & Pekoe: In Four Short Walks by Jacky Davis

Lizzy McTizzy and the Busy Dizzy Day by Sarah Weeks

Woke Baby by Theodore Taylor III

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Once upon a time there was girl who enjoyed reading. And she enjoyed telling other people about these books as well. This girl likes stories about friendship. And while she is not a dog person, she found a must have for dog lovers in a book about two doggie friends named Olive and Pekoe. Olive & Pekoe: In Four Short Walks by Jacky Davis, is a story that is broken up into four different walks. Each of these walks highlights how different these friends are, but also how perfect opposite friends can be. These best of buddies, in Giselle Potter’s […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:127 |

Four-Girl sees the other side of The Boxer Rebellion

Boxer & Saints V02 Saints by Gene Luen Yang

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A couple of spoilers are below. Saints is the second book in the two book graphic series, Boxer & Saints, by Gene Luen Yang. While it is shorter than Boxers, it still packs a lot of story. However, I would have liked to have seen more of back story of Four-Girl (or Vibiana as she will become known). We see how she is the unwanted fourth-girl of her family and how she defies the odds by living and having to deal with a strict, old-school Chinese family ruled by her Grandfather. We even see how her story connects with Boa’s […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:124 |

Join Thomas on his adventure in a book . . . inside a book . . . inside a book

The Book in the Book in the Book  by Julien Baer

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The Book in the Book in the Book  is a clever book. And while the idea has been done before, Julien Baer and Simon Bailly presents it in a new format. When Thomas wanders off while spending a day on the beach with his family, he finds a book about a boy named Thomas who is having a day on the winter slopes. He too, wanders off and finds a book about a boy named Thomas who is a having a day out in outer space…. How long will this go? And will Thomas get back to his family? The […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:123 |

He ain’t heavy he’s my brother

Charlie & Mouse Even Better by Laurel Snyder

Charlie & Mouse by Laurel Snyder

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The Charlie & Mouse series by Laurel Snyder are one of those cute book series that you like but do not necessarily go “OMG BEST BOOKS EVER!” You enjoy the cute stories and the brotherly bond between Charlie and Mouse. The text is not your usual limited picture book text either. These books are more of a beginning to second grade read. This allows it to grow from a read-aloud to the child reading on their own. Also, this helps an older child who still enjoys having stories read to them to have a story that will keep their attention. […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:122 |

And hey lived hoppily ever after

Easter Surprise by Jennifer and John Churchman

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The Easter Surprise is Jennifer and John Churchman’s fifth book in the Sweet Pea series. If you like quaint stories about talking animals, you will like Sweet Pea and the barnyard family. This time our little animal friends go on a mysterious hunt to find out what surprise Sweet Pea has in store for a baby bunny called, Fern.  Along the way, Fern, runs into her friends and keep finding these lovely colored eggs with images of the farm animals on them. And who is the mysterious critter Fern keeps seeing out of the corner of her eye? Will Sweet […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:120 |


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