Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The climate be changing

Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist by Rebecca Donnelly and Mercè López

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My review is: Just read Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist by Rebecca Donnelly and illustrator Mercè López, okay? Well, unless you get an online reader copy like I had, you do have to wait until mid-February to do so, but that still does not mean you need me to tell you all about the wonderful things about Eunice Newton Foote. Like how she, during a time when few people let alone women, had a […]

Oh dear Great Spaghetti Monster, they know not what they say in your name

Super Spaghetti by Rebecca Donnelly

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At first, I thought Super Spaghetti was going to be about a picky eater. Nope. Then thought that it might be a “Big Anthony” in Strega Nona type of story. Nope. Then I said, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? as our main character, Fred, gets engulfed in spaghetti and turns into a superhero. There are too many things going on that never “meshed” for me. It needed some more sauce to the idea of a boy trying to deal with the invention of a spaghetti maker that went crazy. […]

It’s not easy being green but the planet will love you for it!

Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps Into Green Energy by Rebecca Donnelly

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The first cbr12bingo book for me is GREEN Who knew that when I was looking at reader copies, Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps Into Green Energy would not only be a book that would talk about being green and environmental issues but would be a “green” book! Green Machine is a clever book about recycling and how what goes around, comes around in an illuminating manner. Rebecca Donnelly talks how the cycle starts by buying the food that we eat, […]



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