Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Window of Time
Karen Weinberg · 1991
78/100
👍 Worth It
A carefully researched time-travel adventure that earns praise from the Baltimore Sun and comes with a teacher's guide — that combination is real signal for a regional debut novel. Ben and Joseph feel like genuine kids, and the Civil War setting is handled with period accuracy rather than dramatic gloss. Reluctant readers may find the pacing slow, but history-loving middle-graders will be rewarded.
✦ 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
safety90
substance78
craft76
originality74
accuracy85
hype75
age-fit82
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict78
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