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Cindy M
An accountant and CPA by profession, I found myself a book reviewer for Squeaky Clean Reads by happenstance. When the opportunity came to transform that website into Compass Book Ratings, I was excited to seize it and meld my business background with my love of books. As the mother of three teenage sons, I have read a large number of children and young adult books and I believe that there is great value in a content review service. As much as we would love to read everything our children read, there just isn’t enough time. I also appreciate being able to select books for myself that are really worth my precious and limited reading time. I believe there is a book out there for everyone–they just have to find it!
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The Dark is Rising

The Dark is Rising is the second book in a five book series titled The Dark is Rising Sequence. Published in the early 1970's, it is also a Newbery Honor book. Although it is the second in t…
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Curtsies & Conspiracies

For readers who loved Etiquette and Espionage, Ms. Carriger does not disappoint with Curtsies & Conspiracies, the second installment in the Finishing School Series. The characters f…
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1500th Book Review Posted!

With the posting of the book review and content analysis of Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall, Compass Book Ratings now has 1,500 book reviews in our database.  We fired-up the website on…
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Shipwreck Island

There are some quite attractive elements in the middle grade novel Shipwreck Island:  the Survivor-Robinson Crusoe feel, the adventure set-up, the mysteriousness, and characters that will appeal to bo…
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Say What You Will

Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern is a young adult novel that follows two friends over the course of a couple of years, beginning with their senior year in high school.  The story alterna…
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Stitching Snow

It appears to be a requirement these days that all young adult heroines have ninja fighting skills, and the opening sentence of Stitching Snow lets the reader know that Essie, the protagonis…
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Whistling Past the Graveyard

Whistling Past the Graveyard examines the racial tension and civil rights movement through the young eyes of nine-year old Starla. Because the story is told in first person from Starla's perspective t…
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The Kiss of Deception

If one were to set the The Kiss of Deception and The Adoration of Jenna Fox side-by-side, then it will be noted that they are both penned by the same author.  The two books co…
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The Cloak Society

Fans of supervillains and superheroes rejoice!  The Cloak Society is a middle grade action novel that tells the story from the villain's point of view.  This novel blurs the line on many topics and ad…
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The One Safe Place

My original knee-jerk reaction was, "Please, no more dystopian fiction!"   But then, I realized that The One Safe Place is not young adult dystopian fiction; it is middle grade dystopian fic…
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The Night Gardener

I hate scary stories.  So, why, why, why did I pick up The Night Gardener?  Peer pressure, pure and simple.  There has been so much good buzz about this book that I felt it needed …
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Brian’s Winter

Brian's Winter is a result of fan mail, or rather fans that thought Gary Paulsen let his protagonist off too easy in his award-winning Hatchet.  (Mmm, maybe we should all write authors …
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