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Sports great Tiger Woods

Glen Macnow

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Sports great Tiger Woods

Age Rating, Reading Level & Content Guide

by Glen Macnow

Sports Great

Reading Level 5-6 10C Ages 9-12 Balanced Read Page-Turner

The text is written at a 5th grade reading level, the subject matter is intended for middle graders (ages 9–12), and the content is gentle with no concerning themes.

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About This Book

Discover the inspiring journey of Tiger Woods, who picked up a golf club as a young child and grew into one of the sport's biggest champions. Follow his rise through challenges and victories on the golf course.

Quick Assessment

This is a Level 5-6 book with gentle content intensity. No notable content concerns flagged. Written for readers ages 9-12.

Why we rated Sports great Tiger Woods 10C

Sports great Tiger Woods is written at a Level 5-6 reading level across 64 pages (approximately 10,399 words). Strong independent readers around grade 6.6 can typically handle this book on their own; with parent or teacher support, Sports great Tiger Woods works for readers up to grade 7.6.

Read aloud, Sports great Tiger Woods runs about 1.2 hours — long enough to span several bedtime sessions.

We rate Sports great Tiger Woods as 10C ("Clear") 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, Sports great Tiger Woods explores biography, sports, family, coming of age, and multicultural — these threads give the book room to mean different things to different readers.

Good fit for

  • Children in the Ages 9-12 range — the maturity and attention span match the story's pacing.
  • Reluctant readers who need fast-paced, hook-heavy stories to stay engaged.
  • Kids drawn to stories about biography, sports, family.
  • Readers who fall hard for one book and want a long series to live in — there are 63 more books in the Sports Great series.
  • Curious kids who prefer real-world topics over made-up stories.

Maybe not for

  • ! Readers whose emotional readiness lags behind their decoding skills — this book's intensity outruns its reading level, a classic "gifted kid" mismatch.

For Parents

Content Intensity

10C — Clear
Emotional
Clear
Physical
Clear
Social
Clear
Thematic
Clear

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

Data confidence: standard

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

Reading Insights

Hook Factor

7/10

High engagement — fast-paced, fun, and hard to put down. Great for reluctant readers.

Discussion Potential

3/10

A lighter read — great for independent enjoyment.

Book DNA

Multi-dimensional content fingerprint

Vocabulary Level
5
Emotional Weight
2
Narrative Pace
5
Theme Richness
5
World Scope
3
Data Confidence
6

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Details

Book Length

64 pages
10,399 words
1h 9m read-aloud
ISBN
0766014681
Pages
64
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Published
2001
Type
Nonfiction
Word Count
10,399
Read-Aloud
~1h 9m
Text Density
Standard

Subjects

Woods, TigerGolfersUnited StatesRacially Mixed PeopleWoodsTiger1975-Woods, Tiger, 1975-Golf, Biography

People

Tiger Woods

Places

United States