We are excited to announce the National Book Rating Index, the first-ever aggregate of major book reviews, combining family-friendly sources alongside secular organizations. This allows you to compare them side-by-side and decide whom to trust.
One Index, Two Ways to Use It:
Our database contains over 21,000 titles that have been reviewed, challenged, or removed from schools across the nation. We designed a unique system that allows children to find good books while giving parents the data to vet the bad ones.
For Kids (The Public Interface): Default temporarily set to member-access to allow for public review
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Completely Safe: Anyone can search an author and title to check its rating, without a login.
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Sanitized Results: We use a manually assigned formula to generate a generic safety rating (all ages, juvenile advisory, youth advisory, youth restricted, adults only & deviant content).
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Locked Down: No explicit descriptions, and no outbound links will work. Kids cannot click through to mature content.
For Parents and Librarians (The Member Interface): Temporarily public to allow for review.
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Full Transparency: Log in to see detailed reports with profanity count, and explicit content warnings.
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Removal Tracking: See if a book has been removed from districts like Davis, UT or Brenham, TX, and access PDF reports to use for challenges.
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Source Comparison: View ratings from Plugged In, The Good and the Beautiful, Kirkus, BookLooks and RatedBooks side-by-side.
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