Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Can Travis master the Legendary Sword of Legends and fulfill his cosmic destiny? Without his parents learning he isn’t at fencing practice?

Travis Daventhorpe Powers Up! by Wes Molebash

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After a couple of more edgier titles, and a biography/memoir of Andy Warhol, I wanted something light to read. I found in my online reader copies Travis Daventhorpe Powers Up! by Wes Molebash. This is the second book in the series.  Since both volumes are currently available, I recommend reading them as closely together as possible, as there were several pieces I had forgotten about book one. Besides, it is fun to see how they pick up where we left off in book one. All the […]

Family and Monsters

Family Force V: Book One by Matt Braly

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Part Power Rangers, part Transformers, part Voltron and all superheroes and space monsters is how I describe Family Force V: Book One. Matt Braly’s graphic novel (read via an online reader copy, due mid June 2025) will be worth the wait for you or your preteen/teen reader. This coming of age story is one we know (your destiny is forced on you, but you choose the path that takes) is not new, but the way it’s presented is fun, humorous and cute. It is not […]

Freshman Blues

How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger

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How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger is a coming of age story that we know: Girl has trouble fitting in during high school. She is not ready for the trials of being a teen. But, the thing is, she isn’t really a teen. She should be an 8th grader. She should be having homeroom, going to Six Flags, starting a first crush; not having to deal with boys who think interrupting their English teacher is funny. Doing group projects with a boy (thankfully she […]

Which pollinator has the shiny hiney?

The Great Pollinator Count by Susan Edwards Richmond

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The subject in The Great Pollinator Count by Susan Edwards Richmond is not new, but the presentation is fresh and gives the information in an informative (even I learned a few things; such as how to know which pollinator has the shiny hiney) but it is also done in a fun manner. Learning to count the insects, learning about the plants included and more make this a clever book. I wish the illustrations by Stephanie Fizer Coleman were a bit more realistic, but they work […]

She ain’t no Nancy Drew

Casey's Cases: The Mysterious New Girl by Kay Healy

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Casey’s Cases: The Mysterious New Girl by Kay Healy was read via an online reader’s copy, but I will not be reading it or getting copies of it in as a finished copy, as it just did not “click” for me. First, Casey is around 11-years-old. And while I know that is still a young age, she acts much younger than that. In fact, I would not be surprised if it was revealed that she was also neurodivergent as what she does “get” is literal […]

When I was you and you were me

Operation: Cover-Up (Volume 1) by Tate Godwin

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Operation: Cover-Up (Volume 1) by Tate Godwin is both what I expected and not what I expected. I was expecting it to be over the top ridiculousness, and bordering on ( to be honest) the stupid. Instead it was funny. There were good moments and  then there were the not-so-good moments that did tip the scales into the “not my cup of tea.”   The story is familiar: two not so typical kids (the class clown and the brainiac) are starting school in the middle of […]



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