Great Sports Teams - The Detroit Red Wings (Great Sports Teams)

Name: Great Sports Teams - The Detroit Red Wings (Great Sports Teams)
Author: John F. Grabowski
ISBN: 1590182693

Age Rating, Reading Level & Content Guide

by John F. Grabowski

Great Sports Teams (Lucent)

Reading Level 7-8 C · Gentle Ages 13+ Sweet Spot

The text is written at a 7th grade reading level, the subject matter is intended for teens (ages 13+), and the content is gentle with no concerning themes. Its HootRating code, C, means gentle content.

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About This Book

Explore the legacy of the Detroit Red Wings, a team celebrated for its unmatched ten Stanley Cup victories and legendary players like Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and Ted Lindsay. Dive into the history and achievements that make this team a cornerstone of American hockey greatness. Perfect for young sports enthusiasts eager to learn about iconic athletes and thrilling game moments.

Themes

Sports & RecreationHockeyHistoricalBiography

Quick Assessment

This is a Level 7-8 book with gentle content intensity. It's a Sweet Spot read — challenging text with gentle themes, ideal for advanced or 2e readers. No notable content concerns flagged. Written for readers ages 13+.

Why we rated Great Sports Teams - The Detroit Red Wings (Great Sports Teams) C (Gentle)

Great Sports Teams - The Detroit Red Wings (Great Sports Teams) is written at a Level 7-8 reading level across 96 pages (approximately 22,134 words). Upper Grades (Ages 13+) is the typical interest range for this book — readers in that age band have the maturity and attention span suited to the story, separate from whether they can decode the words.

Read aloud, Great Sports Teams - The Detroit Red Wings (Great Sports Teams) runs about 2.5 hours — long enough to span several bedtime sessions.

We rate Great Sports Teams - The Detroit Red Wings (Great Sports Teams) as C (Gentle) because the content sits in the "Gentle" range — no conflict beyond everyday childhood experiences. Across our four dimensions (emotional, physical, social, thematic) the book reads as evenly gentle; no single dimension stands out as a concern.

No specific content flags were raised by community reviewers, which is consistent with the gentle intensity score.

Thematically, Great Sports Teams - The Detroit Red Wings (Great Sports Teams) explores sports & recreation, hockey, historical, and biography — these threads give the book room to mean different things to different readers.

Good fit for

✓ Children in the Ages 13+ range — the maturity and attention span match the story's pacing.
✓ Readers who like a steady plot with enough momentum to keep pages turning.
✓ Kids drawn to stories about sports & recreation, hockey, historical.
✓ Readers who fall hard for one book and want a long series to live in — there are 9 more books in the Great Sports Teams (Lucent) series.
✓ Curious kids who prefer real-world topics over made-up stories.

Maybe not for

! Readers looking for something heavier — this is a gentle, low-stakes story by design.

For Parents

Content Intensity

C · Gentle

Emotional

Gentle

Physical

Gentle

Social

Gentle

Thematic

Gentle

Reading the HootRating code: the first letter is the content intensity (C = Gentle · L = Mild · M = Moderate · I = Intense · V = Very Intense); the second, when there is one, is the kind of content that drives it (E = Emotional · P = Physical · S = Social · T = Thematic). Reading level and age range are rated separately. How we rate

No conflict beyond everyday childhood experiences. Safe for sensitive readers.

Data confidence: standard

Was our "Gentle" content intensity rating accurate for this book?