Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Nick and Charlie are in love. Still.

Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman

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Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman is more of the same with the characters Nick, Charlie, their family and their friends. While we focus on Nick and Charlie (as the other volumes have done) Oseman has added a few areas that are “outside” of the boy’s knowledge (such as there is a flashback with Charlie’s mom and one with a teacher), and there are a few areas that are just “Nick focused” or just “Charlie focused” as usual. There are some sexual […]

Shake your Team Pom!

The Adventures of Team Pom V01: Squid Happen by Isabel Roxas

The Adventures of Team Pom V02: The Last Dodo by Isabel Roxas

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I have been trying to read The Adventures of Team Pom V01: Squid Happen and The Adventures of Team Pom V02: The Last Dodo for I do not know how long! I found an online reader copy ages ago, and when I recently uncovered it, unlike the others that are older and have been deactivated, these two never went away. And I am glad it did not, as Isabel Roxas has one funny story series on their hands. Publisher description says for book one: it […]

Hard book to write about, easy book to read

Worried Whippet: A Book of Bravery (For Adults and Kids Struggling with Anxiety) by Jess Bolton

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Worried Whippet: A Book of Bravery (For Adults and Kids Struggling with Anxiety) by Jess Bolton is a cozy story about how a whippet learns to find the balance between afraid and not afraid, needing an indoor/sleeping like a cushion day and walking outside in the world with its “dangers”, and the fear of new experiences. Sweet illustrations show the adventures and misadventures (stolen chips anyone?) Written in the English of the UK (chips means French fries), though available, was read via an online reader […]

To find a plant and plant it

Spirited V03 Greenhouse of Horror by Liv Livingston

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Spirited V03 Greenhouse of Horror by Liv Livingston, Glass House Graphics and illustrated by Anna Volcan is due in July 2024. Therefore, as books one and two, this was read via an online reader copy. Book four is due in October 2024 but I’m still looking for a reader copy. However, if you want to read all four at once, in mid-November 2024 the collection of all four books will be available in a boxed edition. And honestly, I think you should (or use your […]

This school has spirit

Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston

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The one thing I have with sequels is that if I read them too far apart, I forget parts of book one/the book(s) before. And that happened with  Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston and Glass House Graphics. I mean, I remembered that Liv is the only living person (if you don’t count the werewolves and creatures of the swamp and such, I don’t count vampires) in a school of mostly ghosts. I remembered that she has two good friends, a “mean-girl” in […]

Ghosts and the waffle trick

Hugo’s Haunted Handbook by Dave Whamond

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Hugo’s Haunted Handbook by Dave Whamond is a cute story about getting rid of a “scary ghost” who maybe is not as scary as you think, or as “gone” as you might hope. The humor is modern, with some cleverness for both the aimed reader (stronger age six/seven to around age 10) and adults. Along the lines of Fitz and Cleo by Jonathan Stutzman and Simon and Chester by Cale Atkinson. Things are simple, and the artwork is what you need to watch so you […]



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