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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!
Pyg:  The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig is oh so British in feel and the "editor"  Russell Potter has a bit of high-brow fun.  Quite leisurely in pace, the first person narrativ…
With the posting of the book review and content analysis of Pyg:  The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig by Russell Potter, Compass Book Ratings now has 500 books in our database.  We fired-up the websi…
This Dark Endeavor is the first book in the planned The Dark Endeavor Chronicles Series by Kenneth Oppel. This book has been written as a prequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, incorporating younger …
The Enchanted Truth:  A Modern-Day Fairytale for Grown-up Girls is a gift book.  A short fable with a moral, it is perfect for that friend right after a break-up.  Petrie's voice i…
Win your own first edition hardcopy of the recently released Horten's Incredible Illusions signed by the author, Lissa Evans. We are big fans of the Horten books and predict that they will become a l…
I must confess that I am not a huge fan of young adult fiction so I kept passing over this book.  I just wasn't in the mood for another fad-driven publication with flat characters and flimsy moti…
Erin Dionne does an excellent job of immersing the reader in the weird world of marching band and sharing all the wonderful aspects--the culture, the camaraderie, the music, the performances, the frie…
Fans of Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms can rejoice as Stuart Horten returns in Lissa Evans' Horten's Incredible Illusions.  Most of the charming characters from the first book are …
Elizabeth Letts, author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, knows a good story when she sees one.  The heart of the story is the Cinderella tale of an unexpected plow-horse, Snowman, rising to th…
Laura Amy Schlitz is the Newbery winner for her brilliant Good Gentleman!  Fair Ladies!:  Voices from a Medieval Village.  In Splendors and Glooms she turns her hand to England, 1860.At times eerie an…
Jordan Sonnenblick is one of my favorite authors for young adult fiction.  He has some trademarks to his style that make his books so brilliant.  Sonnenblick's voice is spot-on and his dialo…
The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman is a sweet and charming middle-grade fantasy.  The premise is delightful:  borrowing magical items from a repository!  Who wouldn't be interested?…