Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers
Rose Brock, Tom Angleberger, Sarah Mlynowski, Max Brallier, Julie Buxbaum, Pablo Cartaya, J. C. Cervantes, Matt de la Peña, Stuart Gibbs, Adam Gidwitz, Veera Hiranandani, Hena Khan & Gordon Korman · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Full cast (including Robbie Daymond, Zehra Fazal, Jorjeana Marie, Jonathan Todd Ross, Ramon De Ocampo, Shayna Small, Gibson Frazier, and others)
A stellar roster of genuinely beloved middle-grade authors writing from lived experience on real topics — divorce, bullying, anxiety, loss — all resolved with earned hope rather than easy uplift. Quality varies story to story as it always does with anthologies, but the batting average is high, and the diversity of tone (funny, poignant, even one light ghost story) keeps listeners engaged across 22 entries. The full-cast production is a smart match for the format, and the varied narrators keep energy up throughout.
✦ 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.
🎙 Narration: excellent Full-cast production with individual narrators matched to each story is the right call for this format; the variety prevents listener fatigue across a 22-story runtime and suits the anthology's range of tones and perspectives.
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