Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Bad Twin by Avery Scott

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A twin romance with mistaken identity and forced proximity. Remember the joke in Jude Devereaux’s earlier books that the hero/heroine should “marry the one who can tell the twins apart”? Our hero here, Hudson Quinn, fails that test. He hires a drunken–but HOT!–Gabby Levesque after she stumbles out of club one night and saves his butt on a phone call by speaking French.* Gabby isn’t exactly the most reliable of employees, however, and when it comes time for her to accompany Hudson to An Important […]

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The Rise of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee

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Because I want the best for you, here’s the short version: scroll to the bottom of this review and click the link to buy it. Buy a copy for everyone you know who is a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. (If you have friends who are not fans, have you shared the good news of the Avatar with them?) F.C. Yee teams up with Michael Dante DiMartino (one of the creators of ATLA) to tell the story of Kyoshi, the most recent Earthbending Avatar […]

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Middle School Matters by Phyllis L. Fagell

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Every phase of parenting has unique joys and challenges. As the parent of a ten year old, I’m going to say that this phase we’re in right now–the tween phase–is the first time I am legitimately terrified of messing up my kid. Some of it’s due to the era we live in. Twelve years into this grand experiment of putting the internet in our pockets and we don’t have norms yet for how and when to bring kids online. (Frankly, they’re already there, so it’s […]

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Were you fly? Flyness wasn’t about how handsome you were, although that helped, or about how expensive your clothes were, although that helped, or what brand they were. … Power was fly, and fly was power. I only learned who Dapper Dan was recently, in the context of hearing about his partnership with Gucci after years of being raided and copied by major European luxury brands. The short version of who he is and why he’s known: Dan was a hustler who had made a […]

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Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia, Gabriel Picolo

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Raven Roth doesn’t know how she got here. She wakes up from a car accident to discover that her only family, her soon-to-be adopted mother has passed. Worse, she doesn’t remember anything about her life before. To add another layer to this horror, strange things keep happening. Why can she hear everyone’s thoughts? Why do the things she thinks about keep happening? And what’s with the bird shadow following her around? Raven wrestles with these questions, supported by her foster mother’s sister and niece. Bonus: […]

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This Place is Not My Home (Brothers #2) by Cyn Bermudez

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Brothers Victor and Isaac are living in foster homes over an hour apart. This book is their email correspondence with one another as both try to adjust to their changing world. While Isaac has been placed in a home where he feels welcome, his older brother Victor is struggling in his placement. There are a lot of kids in his foster home, and he clashes with one of the other children. When Victor is accused of theft, he scrambles to find a way out of […]



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