Cannonball Read 18

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When Fiona woke up on the wrong side of the world

Stung (volume one) by Bethany Wiggins

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If you do not like pandemic stories, please stay away from Stung (volume one) by Bethany Wiggins. While this was written before the current events of 2020 to 2022 (when I read) it is almost like what we experienced and/or are experiencing. Except with the crazy beasts roaming outside the gates of the city, honey being used as a form of currency, and politicians getting called out for their actions. We follow a young girl who is trying to hide, partly in plain sight and […]

Baby it is Flipping (only I didn’t say flipping) cold outside

I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived, #16) by Lauren Tarshis

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cbr14bingo Cold  Level 1 & 2   (Images taken from online)   I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived, #16) by Lauren Tarshis is an easy read for stronger readers but could capture some reluctant readers with the boy narrator and the adventure of the blizzard. The ages could start as young as six or seven for the more advanced reader, as there is little in the way of content that could be considered “too much” (I am sure cartoons and movies today have […]

Sorry, I’m just not the audience

Above All Else by Dana Alison Levy

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Dana Alison Levy might be a lovely person; but as I do not know them personally, I cannot say one way or the other. However, I am sure I do not like her characters in Above All Else. In fact, I am disliking them so much, I just cannot finish this book. I am very glad I was able to get this in an e-reader format because even keeping my uncle (the logger) in a job would not ease my soul for taking the life […]

The key to doing the impossible is to have no other choice

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

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CBR11bingo: Travel BINGO: Pajiba, The Collection, Travel, Illustrated, Science On December 5, 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 other men sailed from South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean on the ship Endurance for what was to be known as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton’s plan was to sail Endurance across the Weddell Sea and land on the Northwestern edge of Antarctica, at Vahsel Bay. From there, 6 men and 69 dogs would travel on foot the 1,800 miles to the Ross Sea, where another ship […]



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