Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

What’s up with these picture books and their long titles?

Lola Out Loud: Inspired by the Childhood of Activist Dolores Huerta by Jennifer Torres

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How many stories are there about a girl named Lola? No, really, how many? It just seems like a lot, and usually, they are not the nicest gals (after all What Lola Wants, Lola Gets is not a song about giving things away). Well, in Lola Out Loud: Inspired by the Childhood of Activist Dolores Huerta having Lola getting what she wants is not necessarily a bad thing. Because what she wants is to have justice. Jennifer Torres takes a little girl who helps her […]

I really shouldn’t have written this when I was hungry …

Lunch From Home by Joshua David Stein

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Lunch From Home is based on the various authors experiences growing up. Ray (Garcia), Preeti (Mistry), Mina (Park) and Niki (Russ Federman) bring their favorite lunches to school, and since they are not the “usual sandwich” the other kids have, they are teased for their choices. Choices that truly represent them and their cultures. Of course, they go through the “I just want a sandwich for lunch” until they decide that they will not be ashamed and celebrate what makes them unique. These four children […]

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Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

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Two books that take on a similar theme, create two very different titles. The first is for ages 10 and up, but due to the lack of text, younger could read the illustrations will adult supervision for questions. And the second, while aimed at kids, the picture book format could turn some off. It is an art book that really is meant for adults, but the right child (especially with an adult guidance) could find it. All ages can read it, but I would go […]

And there were more images too

150 Happy Facts by The Happy Broadcast by Keith Bonnici

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From the creators of the incredibly popular social channel, The Happy Broadcast, comes an illustrated book packed with 150 wholesome, positive facts for kids to learn from and enjoy.   The above paragraph is the theme of the book 150 Happy Facts by The Happy Broadcast. I did not read every page, but most of it as I went back to the pages I missed. Here we see the good side of today’s issues. We see that giraffe populations are increasing. Rhino poaching officially is at […]

Lady Rosa

Rosa Parks (NBM Comics Biographies) by Matteo Mancini

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This biographical graphic novel, Rosa Parks (NBM Comics Biographies), starts as a cab driver talks to his passenger about the meaning behind the struggles the black community still faces. But of course, the young man does not realize the past that allowed him to be where he is. And the driver continues to tell the life story of not only Rosa Parks, but the people and events that allowed the path to begin. We follow the memories of the driver as a child as he […]

After writing this, I learned we are still making breakthroughs in this field! 

Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria by Darcy Pattinson

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Have you heard of Tu Youyou? She is a Chinese scientist who used traditional Chinese medicine to help cure malaria. And she was not from the 1800s or even early 20th century when we think of malaria research happening, but she was working during the late 1960s and 1970s in a People’s Republic of China task force. Therefore, relatively “new” in the grand picture. And not only did she and other scientists figure out the right ingredients, amounts, heat, and such, she was one of […]



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