Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
13 Things Strong Kids Do: Think Big, Feel Good, Act Brave
Amy Morin · 2021
🎙 Narrated by Sandy Rustin
76/100
👍 Worth It
A practical, encouraging toolkit for tweens wrestling with self-doubt, friendship drama, and fear of failure, grounded in real research and delivered in language that doesn't talk down to kids. It's secular self-help rather than faith-grounded, which some families will want to know going in, and there isn't enough on record about narrator Sandy Rustin's performance to vouch for the listen specifically — but the content itself is genuinely useful.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: unknown No specific critical commentary on Sandy Rustin's vocal performance was found in available sources.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing72
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit85
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
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