Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I am a junior cannonballer who primarily reads mystery, dystopian, historical fiction, and YA. 3rd year participating.

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

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This book was recommended to me by a friend, who doesn’t usually share my taste in books, but I decided to read it anyway and was kind of disappointed. The Marrow Thieves is dystopian, so I expected it to be right up my alley, but when I read it I was surprised. It’s set at an undefined time in the future where everyone except the Native people have lost the ability to dream. Their ability to dream is stored in their bone marrow so the […]

Better the first time

Internment by Samira Ahmed

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After reading Hollow Fires (which I’m still working on the review for), I went to the library to find a new book to read. I looked for dystopian books and this one caught my eye. I loved Hollow Fires, and Internment is by the same author, so I checked it out, started reading, and couldn’t put it down. Internment by Samira Ahmed is a dystopian book where the US has created internment camps for Muslims. The main character, Layla, and her family get sent to […]

It only took me a year to review this

Dry by Jarod and Neal Shusterman

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This book was first recommended to me by a librarian and then by my brother, so I read it in December 2022, enjoyed it, started to review it, and never got around to finishing the review. Now I reread it in December 2023 and finally finished my review. It only took me a year! Dry by Neal Shusterman is a dystopian thriller set in California during a massive drought called the “Tap-Out” where there is no running water. People are fighting over water and resources, […]

Unfortunately, Not For Me

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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Before I got out of school for winter break I asked my school librarian for drive suggestions, since I had to endure some long flights. I’ve been reading a lot of mystery lately, so I asked for some suggestions in that genre. They all sounded good and seemed like things that I would enjoy, so I checked them out. Fast forward to about a week later, I started one of her suggestions, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart… We Were Liars is about a girl […]

Thank you ElCicco!

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Thank you ElCicco for the books from the book exchange! I read the first book of the series a while ago and have been meaning to read the others ever since! I’m very excited to read these!

I like this book and now want pie

Nightbird by Alice Hoffman

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“It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It’s always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people’s eyes, even from a distance.” Nightbird by Alice Hoffman is about a town named Sidwell meant for ages 10-13. In Sidwell, people believe in fairy tales. Well, to be more specific, they believe in a monster, the Sidwell monster. […]



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