We are excited to announce 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 17,000 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):

• Completely Safe: Located on the homepage of a separate website, anyone can search a title to check its rating without a login.

• 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).

• Locked Down: No explicit descriptions, no "steam" levels, and no outbound links will work. Kids cannot click through to mature content.

 

For Parents (The Member Interface):

• Full Transparency: Log in to see detailed reports with profanity count, and explicit content warnings.

• 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.

• Source Comparison: View ratings from Plugged In, The Good and the Beautiful, Kirkus, BookLooks and RatedBooks side-by-side.

 

Family Memberships:

Once fully rolled out, our index will be on a separate site away from the explicit reports available on RatedBooks.   To keep these details behind a secure gate, we are charging a monthly membership (est. $10/monthly or $50/year). 

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Institutional Pricing:

This resource reduces staff research time, supports policy-compliant decisions, and provides a multiple-perspective approach to evaluating books. Customizable solutions include white-labeling and index integration into library systems so parents can opt their children out based on ratings and reviews. Pricing starts at $399/yr for small institutions, $999/yr for mid-sized institutions and $2,999/yr for large institutions.

 

*Note: User is solely responsible for determining the tax status of payments collected and compliance with IRS regulations regarding charitable solicitations. This Lifetime Membership is for individual and family use. A separate license for Schools and Libraries is coming soon. Contact Aaron@sandsapps.com to learn more about licensing opportunities for schools and libraries. The Index is a product of S&S Apps, LLC, licensed to RatedBooks.org.

 

All rights reserved. The book tags, ratings, classifications, and content-flagging methodology developed by S&S Apps LLC, and RatedBooks.org constitute proprietary intellectual property. No person or organization may copy, scrape, extract, reproduce, adapt, aggregate, commercialize, or use this data for resale, subscription products, district-level services, or derivative works without the prior written permission of RatedBooks.org. Unauthorized commercial use is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action.

 

​RatedBooks.org and S&S Apps LLC may reference or link to external review websites, including but not limited to Library Exposed, RatedReads.com, Compass Book Ratings, Plugged In, and Christian Parent Reviews. Any such references are provided solely for informational and navigational purposes. RatedBooks.org, nor S&S Apps LLC, do not reproduce, republish, summarize, or distribute the copyrighted review content, proprietary ratings, or descriptive materials of any third-party site. All trademarks, rating systems, summaries, and editorial content remain the exclusive property of their respective owners. RatedBooks.org, nor S&S Apps LLC, are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any third-party review provider, and no partnership or licensing relationship is implied. Users are encouraged to visit the linked websites directly to view their original content.

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RatedBooks.org will continue to function as we always have. All of the BookLooks and RatedBooks reports and our spreadsheet will remain the same.