Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Get the scooper, ’cause I got the scoop on a robo-dog and its girl

D-39: A Robodog’s Journey by Irene Latham

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I am not really a dog person, but something about the idea of D-39: A Robodog’s Journey was grabbing. Maybe the androgenous look of the character on the cover or the fact it was a robot dog and as far as I could remember I had never read a book with a robot dog. Maybe because it was free. But what kept me reading this novel by Irene Latham was two main things: first it was done in a poetic prose manner. But it was […]

You don’t need a little orange book to be prepared for this book

Worst-Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara

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The prose poetry allows Worst-Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara to be a quick read, but without sacrificing the story. In the tone and style of Love that Dog and Hate that Cat, Caprara created a book that is both familiar in the subjects presented (growing up, bullies, the loss of a parent, friendship, mental health issues) and different (the father’s particular mental health issues). While I felt the ending was a bit forced, it also was the only way to do it. The realism of […]

Two Touching Stories

Typewriter by Yevgenia Nayberg

No Ordinary Jacket by Sue-Ellen Pashley

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Once upon a time a typewriter proudly typed for its Russian author. It had the Cyrillic keyboard, that tapped out story after story. But when the author comes to America, the typewriter is used less. That is, until a new owner finds it and has it ring out again. Typewriter by Yevgenia Nayberg, is a different story. Typewriter is, as advertised, about a typewriter. While we tend not to see something like this today, the book is set in a contemporary setting. There is some […]

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 […]

Fathers and Sons

Knock Knock by Daniel Beaty

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I was hoping for something different when I saw the cover of Knock Knock by Daniel Beaty. I was not completely sure what I excepted, but I thought it would be about the waiting for the knock and the joy we feel after we open it for that “surprise” on the other side. Be that surprise is a new sibling, a parent coming home from work or school or was in the service. Or the joy of having a grandparent or sibling that lives far […]

Two Tickets to Paradise and a bottle for rumrunners

Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel by Jennifer L. Holm

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Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel is based on Jennifer L. Holm’s novel of the same name. We follow a spunky girl named Turtle as she comes of age in the late 1930’s when sent to live with family she has never met in Key West. The town her mother and aunt grew up in still has cousins, old friends, and Turtles not-so-dead grandmother still there. Turtle has been forced to be an adult before her time as her mom has her head in the […]



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