Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Learning to be a Good Friend
Christine A. Adams · 2006
74/100
👍 Worth It
Written by a counselor with 32 years of experience, this slim guide hands parents real tools for handling peer pressure, mean moments, and the ache of losing a friend, not just feel-good platitudes. It's part of the long-running Elf-Help series and has been published in editions across a dozen countries, which says families keep coming back to it. More workbook than storybook, but a genuinely useful one.
✦ 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: faith-adjacent publisher (Elf-Help series); content is gentle values-based guidance, not doctrinal. We still scored it 74; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing70
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit80
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict74
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