Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Boingy boingy goes the car and the jacket and the money and the shovel and the….

Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA by Stacy McAnulty

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Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA is not “ha ha” funny, but there is a tone of humor to the storytelling of Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley’s book. Maybe it is because I like a good yarn, a good road trip and have an odd sense of humor. But regardless of my thoughts of humor, this is one of my favorite books I read this month (and due to a recent vacation, I had a lot of books read). […]

When Mouschi the cat goes with his boy, Peter, to a secret annex…

The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank by David Lee Miller

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The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank is a poetic look at a few years of Frank’s life. However, instead of Anne or another person telling the story, it is told through the viewpoint of a very humanly aware cat. David Lee Miller and Steven Jay Rubin take us through the years of Anne and the others who were hiding in the annex. But due to the fact the cat is a cat, it does not focus on her, but on The Yellow Stars (as […]

The Life and Times of Ruth

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I have had the pleasure of reading two different books about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While they cover the same territory (the life of Ginsburg), they tell it in two different ways. No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Kathleen Krull and Nancy Zhang and I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley are introductions to a woman who fought for the rights first of herself, then for women and finally equal rights for both woman […]



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