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And a road trip to finish the Bingo Board!

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

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CBR11Bingo – Travel! Coyote Sunrise and her father Rodeo live an unconventional lifestyle. Tried and true hippies, they drive round the country as the wind takes them on a repurposed school bus which acts as both home and transport. Sometimes they drive toward their favorite sandwich shop in the Bayou, or maybe they’re assisting a fellow traveler they found stranded. It’s been this way for five years – because five years ago, Coyote’s mother and sisters were killed in a car accident. And leaving home and never turning back is the only way her father could cope. Coyote still checks […]

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10/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

One of the top most 100 banned books of the decade! (2013)

What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

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CBR11Bingo – Banned Books Sophie has two lives – the one her mother knows, and the one Sophie hides. The one Mother knows is the sad one. The miserable home life Sophie spends as the only child of two people who hate each other. Her mother is deeply depressed, spending more time with General Hospital than with the family. Her father is cold and distant, unless he and mom are screaming at each other. But in her other life, the one her mother doesn’t need to know about, is Sophie’s friendships — and romance. First there was Luke, who dumped […]

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10/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:67 |

“But what do I know? I’ve only been around 4.5 billion years or so.”

AstroNuts Mission One: the Plant Planet by Jon Scieszka, Steven Weinberg

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cbr11bingo – Birthday! Earth is now on the brink of being inhabitable, and she’s got no bones to pick about telling us why. Luckily, as she reveals to us in her narration of AstroNuts, NNASA (Not the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has been planning for just such an event, secretly creating four super-space soldier animal hybrids in their secret laboratory under Mount Rushmore. Blasting off in Thomas Jefferson’s Nose Rocket, AstroWolf, LaserShark, SmartHawk, and StinkBug launch their mission of finding an unoccupied Earth-like planet for us to relocate to.  When they arrive on the Plant Planet, all appears to […]

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10/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:66 |

Gotta read ’em all!

Pokemon X•Y Volume 1 by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto

Pokemon X•Y Volume 2 by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto

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cbr11bingo – Two Heads Are Better! Pokemon X•Y is a brief manga series inspired by the video games of the same name.  A tween came to my library and asked why I didn’t have any and insisted I buy them. So I did. Ha! for the library, not myself.  When I read of the “two heads” task for Cannonball, I thought it would be fun to review these with a kid. I have never read a manga nor a Pokemon book.  I didn’t know where to find the kid who demanded I buy them, but I knew my friend’s 6 […]

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9/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

“I couldn’t help it. It just popped in there.” – Ray Stantz

The DarkDeep by Allie Condie, Brendan Reichs

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CBR11Bingo – And So It Begins . . . Nico isn’t totally beloved in the town of Timbers, after his dad’s environmental lobbying meant the loss of a lot of jobs from Timbers’ lumber industry.  Luckily he has his best friends Tyler and Emma to pass the time and dodge the bullies (mostly Logan Nantes, whose dad runs the lumber mill).  One way they avoid Logan and his cronies is by spending their time at Still Cove, the cliffside on the edge of town where no one really likes to lurk for long. One day, though, Logan and Nico’s former […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:63 |

A mythical world to inform on a real world problem

Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neill

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CBR11bingo – Science! Lana and her father used to live by the sea with her mother and Aunt Mae. But when Lana’s mother died, her father couldn’t bear to be near the place she loved most, so they moved into the city. After some time grieving, he brings Lana to visit Mae and the little fishing village they used to inhabit.  Lana is ecstatic to be back, even though the nature of their visit is also a big somber: they are helping the town recover from a recent storm.  During the clean-up, Lana discovers an odd little creature, like a […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:62 |

Each word clicking into place as if he were making a puzzle out of glass

The Lifters by Dave Eggers

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cbr11bingo:  Readers Choice (swapping in the COLLECTION square) Twelve-year-old Granite Flowerpetal doesn’t love his name, even though his father named him Granite to grant him strength. He tries to rebrand himself as “Gran” and while it does take on, he quickly has second thoughts. But his new identity is only one piece of his jumbled up life.  His parents, seeking new work for his father, have moved them to the Flowerpot family hometown and house, in a town whimsically named Carousel after the craft of carousel-making that once made the town so famous and beloved. But with technology came faster, […]

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9/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

Bingo is really making me branch out!

Agatha Christie: the Lost Plays by Agatha Christie

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cbr11bingo – Classics Hope this counts! I have a hard time keeping my attention on most of the classics, so I looked for a full-cast audio of something fairly light, and this one was quickly available on Overdrive. In 2015, the BBC rereleased these three plays of Christie’s that were thought to be lost. The audio also includes an interview with the author, the cast of the Mouse Trap, and with the lone radio actor who was still alive when the collection was published. The plays in the collection are: Butter in a Lordly Dish, written for the radio in […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |


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