Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Confidence Code for Girls
Katty Kay & Claire Shipman · 2018
🎙 Narrated by Sandy Rustin
81/100
👍 Worth It
This one earns its bestseller status — practical, research-backed confidence-building that respects how tween girls actually think instead of lecturing at them. Narrator Sandy Rustin nails the warm-but-firm tone AudioFile praised, so yes, the audio itself is well worth the listen.
✦ 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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🎙 Narration: excellent AudioFile praised Sandy Rustin's shift from warm/conversational to assertive at key persuasive moments.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing78
Originality70
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit88
Human-eye read80
Penny’s verdict81
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