Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Power in Words
Meaghan Axel · 2020
76/100
👍 Worth It
Meaghan Axel tackles bullying, gossip, and unkind words with a light rhyming touch that keeps the lesson from feeling like a lecture, and the caregiver discussion starters mean this book continues working after the last page is turned. The racially diverse illustrations give the universal message a genuinely universal face. A solid, faith-friendly SEL pick for elementary classrooms and family read-alouds.
✦ 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
substance75
craft72
originality65
accuracy78
hype58
age-fit88
human-eye75
Penny’s verdict76
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