Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You can’t change how other people think and act, but you’re in full control of you.”

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

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4.5 stars ustyce McAllister is a seventeen-year-old with a bright future, thanks to his grades and being lucky enough to have a mother who has worked herself to the bone to send him to the prestigious prep school in Atlanta. Then one evening, when trying to help his extremely drunken ex-girlfriend get home safely (she’s half-black, but looks more like her Norwegian mother than her black dad), he’s detained by a very aggressive cop who’s convinced he was trying to carjack and abduct the girl. […]

His Name is my Name, too

My Name is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin

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You will like this work of art. Or not. There will not be an in between feeling when it comes to My Name is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way. Okay, maybe a little in between as you will probably like some of the poetry and some you will not. And some of the illustrations you will like the artwork of, but others you will be WTF? Or at least that was how it was with me. But for the overall package I have […]

My Whackadoo brain found some cool reads

Murderbot Diaries V02 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Hilo Book 6: All the Pieces Fit by Judd Winick

This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle

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My mood this week and reading has been all over this week. I found three different genres to get me through it. Not only have I done a crap tone of picture books just for the quick read, I had to find humor, serious, and a mixture of the two. I finished Murderbot Diaries V02 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. I prefer the first one but did like the ending where Murderbot makes an interesting realization about how they have always just waited and “cleaned […]

Take a bow

Middle School Misadventures by Jason Platt

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My weekend included too much laundry, a miserably cold and rainy Saturday, not feeling well but actually reading a few easy children’s reads (in between getting seating ready on the front porch finally). Granted, most were not huge hits, but Middle School Misadventures by Jason Platt was not a miss. This is a typical slacker kid story who gets by with (a lot of) help from his friends. It is a “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” like story with more realistic, cartoon images. Also, either […]

Always bring a ferret on your road trip

Fearless: A Graphic Novel by Kenny Porter

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I like the illustrations of Fearless: A Graphic Novel by Kenny Porter. However, the story? Not so much. The fact best friends are growing apart is fine. I can get behind that. It is the theme of many going into middle school story. But it was what one of those best friends did afterwards that was unbelievable: On the first day of school, she runs away, tries to bike two towns over (where her friend moved to over the summer) to find her best friends’ […]

It’s a bird! It’s a…” Well, you know the drill

Metropolis Grove by Drew Brockington

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I think ages strong 6-7 to aged 10 will get a kick out of this book, Metropolis Grove.  The story is simple: a new kid on the block meets the only other kids on the block on her first day in the neighborhood. Theirs is a friendship that is quickly made, along with a tree house (a little less quickly made) and one of the three does not really believe Superman is real and other knows he is as she saw him from her window […]



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