Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Action Presidents #3
Fred Van Lente · 2020
88/100
👍 Worth It
This is exactly what middle-grade nonfiction should be — funny, accurate, visually engaging, and backed by an award from the Theodore Roosevelt Association plus a Booklist starred review. Van Lente and Dunlavey make American presidential history feel like an adventure, and the supplementary maps and timelines make it genuinely useful in classrooms. A standout in its category.
✦ 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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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance85
craft90
originality85
accuracy88
hype88
age-fit95
human-eye88
Penny’s verdict88
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