Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Courage to Soar
Simone Biles · 2016
🎙 Narrated by Imani Parks
73/100
👍 Worth It
Biles's story lands because it's true — foster care, grief, and grinding practice add up to something genuinely inspiring for young readers, even if the prose is more serviceable than sparkling. It handles heavy real-life material like her mother's addiction and her grandmother's death with real sensitivity. Imani Parks's narration has no red flags on record, so it should carry the story just fine.
✦ 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 Imani Parks narrates; no detailed narration critique found beyond production credits.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety80
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing60
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit80
Human-eye read72
Penny’s verdict73
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