Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The science behind super heroes and villains

Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super by Heather Camlot

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The text is busy in this book, Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super by the author, Heather Camlot. It fills the page with few pauses or at least easy stopping points. Once you start a section, you probably should finish it. The illustrations, by Victor Wong, are cartoon-like, but not in a goofy way. They are also busy, and due to having read this via an online reader copy (though it is current out), the flow of them did not work […]

Sssshhh! It’s a secret!

Secret Schools: True Stories of the Determination to Learn by Heather Camlot

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If it had not been for a secret schooling system, we would not have had Marie Currie or Janusz Korczak (born Henryk Goldszmit). If it had not been for secret schooling, Japanese immigrants and their decedents would have lost their language and culture in Brazil. If it had not been for secret schooling in a South African prison, the man that would become of the first elected black leader of the country, Nelson Mandela, would probably have not been. If it had not been for […]

I always said, everyone gets a box of crayons and the same coloring book to duke it out ….

What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows? True Stories of Imagination and Courage by Heather Camlot

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What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows? True Stories of Imagination and Courage is a book of What Ifs, but a lot cooler than, “What if you were a dog?” or “What if you were green?”  It is, “What if people fought by not fighting? By using soccer, pens, seeds, and music and other non-violent materials and ways.” Each page, or you could consider them chapters, talks about true life events that helped people by planting food, playing soccer and so much more. Each example that […]



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