Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Cheek it out

Uranus Is Full of Gas: Farty Facts about the Cheekiest Planet in the Solar System by Chris Ferrie and Michael Slack

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Uranus Is Full of Gas: Farty Facts about the Cheekiest Planet in the Solar System by Chris Ferrie and illustrated by Michael Slack.  Due February 2027; read via an online reader copy. If you are not familiar with me, let me introduce myself: I am an adult reader who is mentally a 10-year-old boy when it comes to gas, farts and body humor. And when you get a book called: Uranus Is Full of Gas, you know I am not going to look any farter… […]

The Doctor is a Life Saver

A Doctor at Heart: The Story of Groundbreaking Scientist and Teacher Vivien Thomas by Joan Schoettler and Steffi Walthall

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This man grew up in a family that demanded perfection, he would grow up to graduate with honors, he would lose all his money in the stock market crash, and he would go on to be the man who helped find a cure for blue baby syndrome. He was Vivien Thomas. Oddly enough, though they mention the pay discrepancies, there is not a lot about the racism Thomas would have faced.  And though there is the story of how he got his “girls name,” I […]

Not only is this book a Wealth of knowlege, cbr18bingo is too!

Baby University: Black Holes for Babies by Chris Ferrie and Julia Kregenow PhD

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Black Holes for Babies by Chris Ferrie and Julia Kregenow PhD (read via an online reader and due in November 2026) would be great for up to second grade or to help an older student organize their thoughts and understanding on the subject. However, if it is like others I have seen in the Baby University series, the slightly oversized board book format might turn those older readers off. However, I am not positive of the final form and hope the adults (parent, teacher, aunt, […]

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Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace and Nancy Carpenter

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Ursula Marvin didn’t have rocks in the head, but she had rocks on the brain! And meteorites and all sorts of neat science things. She was a girl who was told “learn to cook.” And instead, she decided to cook up some good trouble by finding moon rocks, meteorites and more in the harsh Antarctic landscape. This picture book biography, Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace and illustrator Nancy Carpenter is a fun introduction to a woman […]

It walks, talks, learns, and wants to take over the world

How to Train Your Evil Robot, by Joy McCullough and Eduardo Medeiros

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I would have liked a smidgen more technical information in the book, How to Train Your Evil Robot, but overall this is a fun read about AI or of course, artificial intelligence, but the way it is presented mostly allows for the amount we are given to lead to an understanding of what AI is and what it can do. I read via an online reader copy, therefore I could see the graphic novel format, but am also assuming it might be a bit of […]

Superheroes to the…. rescue?

Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine

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Deep in the collection of my online reader links, Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine showed up and I read it via that manner. Currently available, I’m glad I read this book via the online way for this cute and silly superhero story. While there was nothing wrong with the book, everything was not for me and therefore, I did not need a physical copy to keep. It is great for the second grade on up, as it has all the elements younger […]



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