Reboot

Name: Reboot
Author: Amy Tintera
ISBN: 9780062217073

Age Rating, Reading Level & Content Guide

by Amy Tintera

Reading Level 3-4 ME · Moderate · Emotional Ages 13+ Heads Up

The text is written at a 3rd grade reading level, the subject matter is intended for teens (ages 13+), and the content has moderate intensity with some emotionally heavy themes. Its HootRating code, ME, means moderate content, mostly emotional.

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About This Book

Wren races through the shadows, her heart pounding even though she’s supposed to be impossible to feel. She’s trained to follow every order—except the one where she has to stop Callum, the newest Reboot who still has a spark of life in his eyes. Can Wren protect him without getting caught?

Themes

Adventure Friendship Family Romance Science & Nature

Quick Assessment

A teen girl who returned from death as a Reboot is trained as an elite soldier, until she is ordered to eliminate the new trainee she has grown to care about. Expect fantasy violence, physical danger, grief over death, and a slowly building romance, with a moral dilemma about obeying orders at the center of the story.

Why we rated Reboot ME (Moderate)

Reboot is written at a Level 3-4 reading level across 365 pages. 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.

We rate Reboot as ME (Moderate, mostly emotional) because the content sits in the "Moderate" range — moderate conflict that may involve loss, scary scenes, or interpersonal stakes. The strongest signals come from emotional weight, physical peril — these are the dimensions parents should evaluate against their reader's tolerance.

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

Thematically, Reboot explores adventure, friendship, family, romance, and science & nature — 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.
✓ Kids drawn to stories about adventure, friendship, family.

Maybe not for

! Readers who get easily upset by emotional or moderately dark scenes — the conflict here is real, not just background flavor.

For Parents

Content Intensity

ME · Moderate · Emotional

Emotional

Moderate ←

Physical

Moderate

Social

Gentle

Thematic

Mild

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

Real stakes and emotional weight. May include sustained danger, loss, or bullying.

Data confidence: high

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