Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Couple of warriors

Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun  by Sally Deng

Brand-New Bubbe by Sarah Aronson

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Recently I was cleaning out my emails which had hundreds of links to old online reader copies. I then realized that I keep reading new things, but have forgotten about titles I had been excited about. Well, I was going to fix that! Unfortunately, some of the links had expired, but most actually were active. Two that I found that I thought could be fun reading were Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun and Brand-New Bubbe Sally Deng has an interesting story about a warrior in Warrior Princess: The […]

A happy revisit to an old fave

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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Bingo square: Hold Steady On the Second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Lazlo Strange has been fascinated by the city of Weep since he was a boy. A far away place cut off from the world 200 years ago, even its name has been snuffed out of existence. Lazlo felt magic in the air when that happened, and has spent his life since learning all he can about Weep. An orphan raised by monks, he finds […]

It’s Always Those People

The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

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“The Netanyahus,” is a fictionalized version of a real-life visit to an American campus by the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The subtitle: “An account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family” is a succinct but entirely inadequate description.   The book is also about being part of the Jewish diaspora in America in the 50s and being Jewish anywhere throughout history. It’s also about Israel. The book is so readable primarily because it […]

A Romance About the Tragedy of Comedy and Second Chances Through Time Travel

New Adult by Timothy Janovsky

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Grief is a funny thing. In New Adult, Timothy Janovsky uses time travel and mind reading glasses, among other items, to explore growing up, messing up, grief, regret, forgiveness, accountability and doing the hard work of life. The tagline for the book is “Can we skip to the good part?” If you’re on social media you’ve probably heard the hook of AJR’s “The Good Part” as people show off their accomplishments, glow ups, etc. But in real life we can’t skip the hard work and […]

Two birds and a star

A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L'Engle and the Making of a Wrinkle in Time by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams

Waverly Braves the Breeze: The Story of a Galapagos Albatross (Friendship Books for Kids, Kids Book about Fear) by Samantha Haas

The Penguin of Ilha Grande: From Animal Rescue to Extraordinary Friendship by Shannon Earle.

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I enjoy a good picture book round up. I wanted to include a theme, it could have been, I read all these books online, but decided two birds and a star, was in my (not so) humble opinion, a great theme. Why am I so not-humble? Well, one should stand up for what they believe, be strong in their opinions Like Madeleine L’Engle was. And we see that in A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L’Engle and the Making of […]

I now have a new fish to add to my crazy fish loves!

Who's Afraid of the Light? by Anna McGregor

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Many creatures are afraid of the dark, but in Who’s Afraid of the Light? we get the other side of the story. We go deep into the darkness of the ocean, where we find so many different creatures. However, because it is pitch black down there, the dark is safe for a friend our narrator makes. So, when we find light, we know danger is coming. Or, is it? Meeting a few creatures such as the anglerfish and vampire squid. In a young format we […]



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