BiblioNasium has recently added a reviews feature to its website.

BiblioNasium, a free social networking site where young readers connect with friends, teachers, librarians, and parents to explore and share book reviews and recommendations, recently announced the launch of advanced book review features on its web network. Children, using the platform to catalog, track, and record their reading, can now also add their own voice by writing independent book reviews that can be shared with their BiblioNasium community. The reviews upgrade is in direct response to requests from its dedicated community of librarians, teachers, and students. The new features allow children to practice writing book reviews and recommendations, while providing their educators with valuable data and the ability to moderate and publish the book reviews. BiblioNasium Founder and CEO, Marjan Ghara, says the reviews features accommodates both young and more advanced readers. According to Ghara, teachers moderating the content must approve the review before it will publish. She also says, "[BiblioNasium] is free for teachers." Specifically designed for children (K-8) BiblioNasium, the recent winner of EdTech Digest’s 2014 Cool Tools Awards, has over 100,000 registered users and is growing organically by over 1,000 users a week. Its mission is to help close the literacy gap for young children by using the power of technology, social networking, gaming, and strong data collection to engage them to become regular readers in a safe and private digital space. “Many have labeled us as the ‘Goodreads for kids,’ but we go beyond the social, cataloging, and recommendation aspects of Goodreads," says Adele Schwartz, BiblioNasium’s chief education advocate. "We have added reading challenges, virtual rewards, online reading logs, integration with Lexile® to help select books at the right reading level, and also provide invaluable data and reports to educators and parents to support the children’s reading."