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Educational Webinars

At ReadSafeRatings, we believe that empowered authors are the best advocates for creative freedom.
Join us for free and low-cost webinars that cover:

• Understanding the Rating System: How it works and why it matters.

• Navigating Book Challenges: How to protect your work and advocate for access.

• Building Trust with Readers and Librarians: Using your rating to connect and grow your audience.

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Marketing Materials

Share your rating proudly and professionally!
We provide a range of resources to help you:

• Digital Badges: Add them to your website, social media, or email newsletters.

• Sample Press Releases: Announce your rated book to the world!

• Social Media Graphics: Show your rating visually to build reader trust.

• Tips & Best Practices: How to talk about your rating to attract the right readers.

These materials amplify your story—while helping to ensure it stays accessible.

Sample of Rating results that will be shared with Librarians and Bookstores:

Book Title: Pawnee Prisoner: The Story of Jane Gotcher Crawford
Author: Vivian McCullough
Rating: R
Content Labels: V, SC, ST
Explanation: This historical novel includes graphic and intense scenes of violence (including murders, scalping, and torture), explicit depictions of sexual violence threats, and deeply sensitive topics involving abduction, cultural conflict, and trauma. Given the severity of these scenes, it is best suited for mature readers ages 17 and up.

Book Title: PROVEN PATHWAYS TO WEALTH & HAPPINESS (2021 Revised)
Author: Victor Vonico Johnson
Rating: G
Content Labels: None
Explanation: This book is a motivational and practical guide on achieving financial well-being, wealth, and personal happiness through mindset change, goal setting, and practical financial strategies. It includes no explicit language, no violence, no sexual content, and no adult themes beyond general money and personal development. The book is suitable for general audiences of all ages.

Protect Your Collections. Support Informed Choice.

As a librarian, teacher, or school administrator, you are on the front lines of fostering literacy, curiosity, and intellectual growth. But you also face increasing scrutiny over the books available in your collections. In today’s environment, transparency and documentation can make all the difference.

ReadSafe Ratings is your ally.

This voluntary content advisory system provides a consistent, easy-to-understand framework that rates books based on their content. With a six-tier rating scale and optional content labels (e.g., EL - Explicit Language, V - Violence, SCB/SCT - Sexual Content, DA - Drug/Alcohol Use, ST - Sensitive Topics), ReadSafe Ratings helps ensure that your library shelves are both enriching and appropriately curated.

What You Gain:

• Clarity & Consistency – All books submitted are reviewed using the same transparent criteria. This enables fair, consistent decision-making when building or evaluating your collection.

• Documentation for Challenges – Each rating includes a short explanation of content. If a book is challenged, you have a third-party evaluation to back up your selection process.

• Better Reader Matching – Help students, parents, and teachers understand the content level of a book before they open it. This supports freedom of choice, not censorship.

• Time Savings – Don’t have time to read every book? ReadSafe Ratings does the deep dive for you.

How to Use ReadSafe Ratings in Your Institution:

1. Look Up a Title – Search our public database at ReadSafeRatings.com/database

2. Review Rating & Labels – Check the book's rating and explanation to understand if it aligns with your readers’ needs.

3. Use Ratings for Book Lists or Reading Levels – Use the advisory ratings to organize classroom libraries, recommend age-appropriate titles, or guide parent/student selections.

4. Request a Rating – Have a new book you’d like evaluated? Encourage the author to submit, or partner with TAMIH to sponsor bulk ratings for classroom use.

We stand with educators and librarians.

ReadSafe Ratings is not about banning books. It’s about helping everyone make confident, informed reading decisions in a time when that clarity is needed more than ever.

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