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Each month, our student reviewers read and review many new and advance books sent to us by authors and publishers. A reviewer is asked to rate the book they have reviewed on a 1 - 10 scale, with 10 being the highest rating a book can receive. Although this rating system is subjective, the majority of our reviewers are good judges of what will interest preteens and young adults in terms of stories, plots, and writing. This is because most of our reviewers are preteens and young adults, the very audience targeted by the books we have been asked to review.

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