Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Far from Fair
Elana K. Arnold · 2016
76/100
👍 Worth It
Elana K. Arnold writes with a genuine middle-grade voice and handles terminal illness with more honesty than most books aimed at this age will dare. The right-to-die thread is handled thoughtfully, but it does mean parents should read alongside younger kids rather than hand this off unsupervised. For families already navigating illness or loss, this is exactly the kind of book that helps kids feel less alone.
✦ 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: Contains frank treatment of assisted dying / right-to-die; parental co-reading recommended for younger or sensitive readers. We still scored it 76; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety72
substance80
craft78
originality75
accuracy82
hype80
age-fit70
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict76
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