Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Home is where you are

The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back by Jonathan Stutzman

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The message to The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back by Jonathan Stutzman might be slightly above many picture book readers/listeners (or to booksellers who were dead-stinking-tired because they had not slept in a few days). In other words, know your reader. The concept is simple: Vincent travels wherever they must go. They are a mouse with boots on their feet, had on head and the house on his back. The spot on a grassy hill calls him. He puts the house down, […]

Fox and Boar are friends

Tiny Fox and Great Boar Book Two: Furthest by Berenika Kolomycka

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Tiny Fox and Great Boar Book Two: Furthest has three different stories that are connected. Berenika Kolomycka’s second book in this series is set in three different locations. The first is a meadow, the second during their travels and a foggy mountain, and the final one the seaside/the ocean. Now, it might have helped to have known book one, but this book does mostly stand on its own. The format is broken into three chapters that show the travels and adventures of two characters, Tiny […]

Let’s go to sleep

The Dreamway by Lisa Papademetriou

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I do not remember how I found out about The Dreamway by Lisa Papademetriou but find it I did, and an interlibrary loan is how it came to be in my possession. I would have loved this as a 10-to 13-year-old. The story is cute, but not overly cutesy. There is enough fantasy to grab the fantasy reader, but enough reality to grab them, too. The sibling story is interesting. The narrator’s disability does not come into play a lot (and in fact could be […]

Two reviews, four books

The Many Hats of Louie the Rat by Sakshi Mangal

Time to Go! by Marta Cunill

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I wanted to read Revenge of the Raccoons by Vivek Shraya and illustrated by Juliana Neufeld. I clicked on the link I had, and The Many Hats of Louie the Rat by Sakshi Mangal showed up. But that was just par for today’s course. My day started late, my computer wanted to act up at work, I had to stand in a too long line for lunch only to have the food gone bad. I needed something good and fast. Now, The Many Hats of Louise […]

“Shara’s not nice. Shara’s so many more important things than nice.”

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

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4.5 stars It’s not exactly easy being Chloe Green, the bisexual girl with two mums when also trying to become valedictorian at Willowgrove Christian Academy in a small Alabama town. She keeps trying to protest against the school’s puritanical rules with frequent dress code violations, but also has to make sure she doesn’t actually end up expelled. Chloe has friends, having quickly befriended the other queer kids at Willowgrove, but she’s mostly avoided interacting too much with the rest of the student body. Everything changes […]

My high school years were never this interesting

Thieves by Lucie Bryon

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Ella and Madeleine are two girls who do not really realize the other likes them. All Ella does is start sweat oceans when she admires her from a far. But due to a stupid drunken event, Ella wakes up one morning and learns that she has stolen some things from the party from the night before. Because of Ella’s BFF, she is tossed together with Madeline the day after, but is caught red handed with the stash. But before that Madeline has made the confession […]



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