Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
You are a Genius
Edward Packard · 1989
70/100
👍 Worth It
You Are a Genius has one of the most empowering premises in the CYOA catalog — a 14-year-old prodigy charting a future across science, business, and engineering, with up to 40 branching paths. It's pure fantasy, but the constructive kind, and it's entirely clean. The execution is no deeper than the format allows, but as an imaginative springboard for middle-grade readers who like big-dream scenarios, it earns its keep.
✦ 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
Faith & family safety87
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing63
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit79
👁 Human-eye gut-check65
Penny’s verdict70
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