Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
A Thousand Feelings
K B Jensen · 2020
60/100
👎 Skip It
Eight young writers — middle-schoolers — collaborated to produce a genuinely varied genre anthology that won a Gold Medal Evvy Award, and that achievement is worth celebrating. As a reading experience the quality is uneven in the way youth anthologies always are, and the horror elements mean it is not right for every family, but as a creative-writing spark for young readers it has real value.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: horror and darker genre elements · mildly scary content for sensitive readers. We still scored it 60; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness54
Craft & writing56
Originality57
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers45
Age-fit70
👁 Human-eye gut-check68
Penny’s verdict60
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