Cannonball Read 18

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Princess of the Shtetl? Prince of my Heart!

Princess of the Shtetl by Jake Maia Arlow

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Princess of the Shtetl is one of my most anticipated releases, and it was so worth the wait (even though y’all are going to have to wait a bit longer because it’s not out until January – I’m sorry/you’re welcome?). Jake writes fantastic, fun middle grade novels, and Princess of the Shtetl is far and away his best to date. Princess follows Bunke, an eleven-year-old girl living in a Russian shtetl during a time when the dangers to Jewish families are increasing and young Jewish boys […]

I Didn’t Expect the Robot to Become a Mom

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

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I haven’t seen The Wild Robot movie yet, but as soon as I saw the trailers a couple years ago, I knew I wanted to see it. And I always like to read the book first, so I picked up the first two and finally got around to reading the first one. It’s about Roz the robot, who ends up on an uninhabited island after a cargo ship sinks. She is accidentally activated by otters (never thought that would be a sentence I’d write) and learns to […]

Women mind your business.

Courageous Cowgirls: Women Who Rode the Trails, Ran Ranches, and Raced in Rodeos by Sue Young and Katie Howerton

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Why yes. Yes, women should mind their own business. Especially if you are one of the women in this book that could and would barrel ride, cattle drive, steal back horses and guns, not to mention run chuck wagons and their own cattle businesses. In Courageous Cowgirls: Women Who Rode the Trails, Ran Ranches, and Raced in Rodeos you see women who did this and more (though stealing back your husband’s gun and your cattle a few hundred at time is impressive enough). This book […]

The Story Will Be Told

Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat

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CBR18 Bingo: Steal – This book tells the story of the arrival of the first conquistadors in the New World, and the start of their wanton rampaging and theft of land and gold from the people who already live there. Anacaona, the niece of one of the five chiefs of Hispaniola, is busy preparing to one day succeed her uncle and considering marriage with another chief. But when she begins to get strange premonitions of danger, and strange white men appear on their shores, she […]

How to Talk to Your Succulent

How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Persico

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Adara and her dad are moving in with her grandmother, after Adara’s mother dies. Her father won’t talk to her about her mother’s death or why they are moving from California to Michigan to begin with. Luckily, her grandmother is a great source of comfort, Adara quickly makes a friend, and she develops an interest in one of her mother’s passions: plants. The plants, it seems, also have an interest in her: for Adara realizes she can talk to them. But being a good friend […]

A graphic novel to introduce classic novels

The Night Librarian by Christopher Lincoln

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The New York Public Library has a secret. After hours, a group of librarians called The Night Librarians make sure book characters stay put in their books. You see, the older a book is, the more bored its characters are of reliving the same old story day after day. So the Night Librarians make sure Peter Pan flies back to Neverland and Scrooge stays put in Olde England, and most alarmingly, that Captain Hook, the ghosts, and other dangerous villains don’t wreak havoc on library […]



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