Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Big responsibility on little shoulders

The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko

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Hank Hooperman’s mother has been missing for a full week. It’s not the first time she’s been away from home, but it’s certainly the longest. Hank has done the best he can to take care of his three year old sister Boo, but they’re running out of food and money. When the property manager threatens eviction, Hank makes a desperate move and brings Boo to the emergency contact listed on a field trip permission slip, a mysterious woman named Lou Ann. Lou Ann turns out […]

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”

A Heart in a Body in the World by Caletti, Deb

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After an unnerving encounter in a local fast-food chain, Annabelle runs. She runs and decides she can’t stop anytime soon. She isn’t prepared for a cross-country run, but she can’t bear to turn back to her hometown and school where she is haunted by flashbacks of The Taker, and what he took. Her mother is appalled, with graduation coming and concern that Annabelle isn’t thinking rationally. But her little brother, her friends, and her grandfather seem to understand that running to Washington DC is something […]

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart!

I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

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I’m really sorry for naming this review after the most cliche song I could have quoted — OR AM I? Sixteen-year-old Jess has been through it this year.  She survived a terrible car crash that killed her mother on impact. She’s left scarred and her leg is irrevocably damaged, despite the diligence she has devoted to her physical therapy. And now, the court has ordered her custody to the father she has barely known, transported there by an old family friend named Gil. Gil does […]



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