Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Call It Courage
Lynda Allison · 2015
70/100
👍 Worth It
The underlying Sperry novel is a Newbery Medal winner with timeless coming-of-age themes, and Allison's classroom kit provides genuinely practical scaffolding — quizzes, graphic organizers, essay prompts — for grades 7–8. As a teaching resource it does its job well, and educational retailers with real standards carry it. Worth it for its specific purpose; just be clear that this is a teacher supplement, not an independent read.
✦ 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
Faith & family safety96
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing68
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit88
👁 Human-eye gut-check68
Penny’s verdict70
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