Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Elena Delle Donne
Mary Hertz Scarbrough · 2020
74/100
👍 Worth It
Elena Delle Donne's story — her athletic excellence combined with her deep devotion to her sister Lizzie's wellbeing and Special Olympics advocacy — is genuinely inspiring, and this leveled reader delivers it clearly with curriculum-smart reading tools built in. At 32 pages it is necessarily brief, and the classroom apparatus can feel clunky in a home setting, but for its intended grades-three-through-five audience it is a confident, family-affirming pick.
✦ 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
safety98
substance70
craft68
originality60
accuracy82
hype74
age-fit90
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict74
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