Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ok, who licked the butter?

The Great Indoors by Julie Falatko

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The Great Indoors started out strong. In fact, I had an idea what was going to happen before the first page. You know the title, you see the cover and then page one you see the humans leave. Of course, this was going to be a quirky story of animals having a relaxing vacation from the great outdoors!  But, sadly, it fell short at the last minute. Julie Falatko has the humor (the skunk is going to take another shower), there is the busyness of […]

Hey Grandude, Take a sad day and make it better

Hey Grandude! by Paul McCartney,

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Hey you readers! Paul McCartney (yes that Paul McCartney, you know the cute one) has, along with Kathryn Durst, created a picture book called Hey Grandude! It is a cute and fun story about a grandfather whose pack of grandchildren call him Grandude. And they love visiting him, but one day things just do not feel right. And like most grandfathers, Grandude knows what to do. He grabs his compass, a handful of postcards and with these words, “See the compass needle spin, let the […]

The concept is better than the execution

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

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Official book description: The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away. This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all […]

Her name is as sweet as she is

Donut the Destroyer by Sarah Graley

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There will be several Donut jokes told in reviews of Donut the Destroyer. I will not be doing them, as it is too easy. And I am sure Sarah Graley and Stef Purenis will hear plenty without me adding to the mix. Instead I will focus on the question: Are we ready for Donut (first name) The (middle name) Destroyer (last name)? This super strength-wielding girl is packed to the top with goodness! Little old Ladies are saved from demons! Libraries saved from chaos! Going […]

One song away from being a super hero

Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot

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The story of the new Black Canary unfolds in Black Canary: Ignite. But first our heroine needs to survive Junior High school. But fighting her mother’s old nemesis might be easier than taking on the principal, Dr. Vogel. Meg Cabot’s voice comes alive in a new DC novel for the younger reader. Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance is just trying to get through tests, friendship worries, cheerleading tryouts, convincing her father to let her join the GCPD Junior Police Academy (so she can become a police officer […]

Solitary, humble troll finds one human baby and it’s all across the ocean from there

Bera the One-Headed Troll by Eric Orchard

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Bera the One-Headed Troll by Eric Orchard was a book that just looked interesting when I saw it on a list of graphic novels. The story seemed okay, but nothing earth shattering. Yet, I still was intrigued. The biggest attraction was that Bera was only a one-headed troll (as the title obviously points out). I suspected the story had something to do with that. Perhaps a one-headed troll is rare in her world, therefore considered ugly or something along those lines. Instead, the story by Orchard is […]



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