Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Siblings: can’t live with them, can’t live without…well you could but you know, not ALL the time….

Kyle’s Little Sister by BonHyung Jeong

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Kyle’s Little Sister is an interesting look at siblings from all sides of the coin. While it is mostly told from Grace’s point of view, you do get bubbles of thoughts from others. This sweet, funny, realistic, and relatable tale talks about how we are not “the little sibling of our older sibling.” We have a name of our own. We have personalities of our own. We have our own interests. We look like ourselves, and we act like ourselves. And younger siblings want everyone […]

Tori on Tori

Just Pretend by Tori Sharp

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Just Pretend by Tori Sharp is a fresh friendship story that is also familiar. Tenderly written, this graphic novel is realistic and relatable. While there is a moral, the main point is just come along for Tori’s journey. We follow Tori after her parents have gotten divorced. With a feeling of being set in the 1990s (or around then), this book is timeless. The issues that divorced parents have, the issues siblings have with each other, and the issues children have with their parents allow […]

Follow the Dragon Path home, but watch out for monster sized monsters

The Dragon Path by Ethan Young

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The Dragon Path is the old west, fantasy, science fiction, Chinese mythology coming together in a graphic novel of family, honor, and righting wrongs. This is a diesel punk novel that is if Avatar the Last Airbender, a wagon train of immigrant settlers, and Komodo dragons got together for a story. If you want adventure, humor, magic, and family in one spot, you probably want to read this. Ethan Young made a straightforward story: a family/clan is traveling back to their ancestral land. The action […]

Kip is a quiet girl in a loud city and now now her fun pencil eraser is talking to her.

The Odds by Matt Stanton

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When the imagination goes wild, it goes really wild for Kip in this 8- to 10-year-old reader graphic novel called The Odds. In this first volume of a new series by Matt Stanton, lives up to its name, The Odds. Kip, our main character, wakes up one morning to see several characters from her dad’s game from his phone, from the television, from her books, a dinosaur her dreams/nightmares, her dad’s comic character, the alien eraser from her pencil, plus a pink elephant that really […]

Got my boogie shoes on and ready to go!

Dance Class Volume 12: The New Girl by BeKa

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The first thing I noticed in my copy of Dance Class Volume 12: The New Girl by BeKa was that several speaking bubbles were empty. I can only assume that this is due to reading this as an e-galley directly from the publisher’s newsletter and therefore, not a finished copy. Because of this, I was not overly thrilled with the plot. However, the 3 comes from the potential of what I was able to read. I think reading the previous volumes of the series would […]

Watch out for angry mothers and murderous cults

Queen’s Favorite Witch V01 The Wheel of Fortune by Benjamin Dickson

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If Kiki the Witch and Harry Potter combined, you’d probably get the graphic novel, Queen’s Favorite Witch V01 The Wheel of Fortune.  It has an old school feeling, but also modern sensibilities. There is obviously a European flare to the tone (as it is set in Elizabethan era) but accessible for all readers.  It is not for those who are more sensitive, as there is an evil cult, a possible assassination attempt, death, and bullies. However, it is also seriously sweet and funny. Talking rats, […]



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