Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Friendship Goals
C. L. Reid · 2021
76/100
👍 Worth It
The Emma Every Day series does something genuinely valuable — it puts a Deaf protagonist with a cochlear implant and ASL front and center in a cheerful, low-stakes early-reader story, and backs it up with sign language content built into every book. The football-team dilemma is simple but honest about the difference between encouraging a friend and respecting her choices. Depth is limited by the format, but that's the right call for the audience.
✦ 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
craft72
originality78
accuracy80
hype82
age-fit90
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict76
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