Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Myracle, Lauren

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Under the Moon is from the new DC Ink imprint of YA graphic novels based on its popular characters. In this, we meet 14 year old Selina Kyle, living with her single mom and her mom’s abusive boyfriend. Selina is sort of getting by, but when her mom’s boyfriend’s violence goes too far, she leaves home and school to live on the streets. There, she meets a group of young bandits who take her in on a plot to steal a valuable book from Wayne mansion. Despite putting up many walls, she begins to grow close to her new friends […]

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5/16/2019 |

“They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.”

Nyxia by Reintgen, Scott

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Emmett Atwater is one of ten disadvantaged teens who have been recruited by super-corporation Babel for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: To travel into deep space to newly discovered planet Eden and mine its incredibly versatile and valuable material: Nyxia, an element that has seemingly endless possibilities (it can be manipulated into weapons, into a power source, into smoke, and much more).  Eden is inhabited, and Babel’s first mission there was deadly – the inhabitants of Eden (humanoid aliens) slaughtered most of an Earth crew, except for the one child on board, as they highly value the lives of children and minors. […]

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5/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

It’s like you’re a mirror/my mirror staring back at me/oooooh!

Otherbound by Duyvis, Corrine

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(Blame “It’s Gonna Be May” on my Timberlake quote) Nolan Santiago suffers from frequent blackouts. His family has been desperate to find the medication that will ease his daily and frequent epileptic fits. But the reason nothing is working is because Nolan isn’t having fits. When Nolan closes his eyes – even when he merely blinks – he is in another world, and in another life. Amara has been a servant on the run for most of her life. She was pulled from the palace to serve and protect the Alinean princess Cilla alongside their elder Jorn, a palace mage […]

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5/14/2019 |

The pecan doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The Lying Woods by Elston, Ashley

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The Lying Woods is a quiet YA mystery surrounding a family scandal. Owen has just been pulled out of his fancy boarding school upon the news that his father has left town,  taking with him millions of embezzled funds from the fracking company he runs. The company employed most of Owen’s small town, so when Owen is forced to return home and enroll in the public school, he doesn’t have any friends left there – as far as they’re concerned, Owen’s cushy life was lived on their family’s lost pensions and everyone in town is convinced his mother knows more […]

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5/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

“There could be love.”

The Giver (Graphic Novel) by Lowry, Lois; Russell, P. Craig

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I read The Giver for my sixth grade language arts class.  Sixth grade is apparently the year that our school decided we were ready to be ruined by literature. Between this, Bridge to Terebithia, and Where the Red Fern Grows, I don’t know how I had the will to read anymore. I guess that’s the amazing thing about well-written literature. It rips your heart in two and yet you keep going back for more! If you are one of the few people who haven’t visited this book, you should make room for it! I expect it is many readers’ first foray […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

“We should teach our girls that snapping is ok, instead of waiting for someone else to break them.”

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

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I only learned that Laurie Halse Anderson wrote her modern classic and much challenged novel Speak in response to her own rape as a young teen. But where Melinda came to art to find her voice, Anderson came to writing. Anderson writes in verse that runs the gambit of emotion and holds no punches.  It is a memoir of her full life, opening with a reflection on her father, whose severe PTSD sets the tone for her complicated home (later reflected in her YA fiction The Knife of Impossible Memory). Her rape by a classmate as a middle-school student left her […]

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4/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

“I like stories where women save themselves.”

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

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Gaiman smushes the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty together in this gorgeously illustrated novella.  The setting of the book is sometime after Snow White is awakened from her coffin and at the 100 year mark after Sleeping Beauty’s curse set in. But the stakes are raised when the sleeping sickness that has fallen on the princess and her kingdom is spreading out further and further as the curse lingers.  Several of the dwarves bring this to their queen, and conveniently she is looking for a reason to get out of her upcoming wedding. Snow sets off, armored up, […]

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4/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?”

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

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The first time Lynn killed a man, she was 9 years old. Her mother taught her the ways of shooting and with good reason: she and Lynn had something highly coveted.  A small pond of water, in a world that was desperate for it.  Now into her teenage years, Lynn is used to the lonely life she and her mother tend to, a life that cycles only around surviving.  Collecting and purifying water is their number one priority. Hunting and growing another. Keeping the men who want to take over their property away by any means possible is the third […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |


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