This adventure ends

Name: This adventure ends
Author: Emma Mills
ISBN: 9781627799355

Age Rating, Reading Level & Content Guide

by Emma Mills

Reading Level 3-4 LE · Mild · Emotional Ages 13+ Matched

The text is written at a 3rd grade reading level, the subject matter is intended for teens (ages 13+), and the content is mild with minimal sensitive material. Its HootRating code, LE, means mild content, mostly emotional.

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About This Book

What if moving to a new town meant starting over with no friends? Imagine stepping into a brand-new school where everything feels strange and a little scary. Can a chance meeting change everything and open the door to friendship and maybe even something more?

Themes

FamiliesFriendship Coming of AgeSocial Customs

Quick Assessment

Sloane moves from New York to Florida and becomes close to twins Vera and Gabe, whose late mother's beloved painting goes missing and sends Sloane on a road trip across state lines. The story explores grief over the mother's death, a messy but loving family, and intense teen friendships, with romantic storylines that are a central thread but not graphic. Parents should expect emotional weight around loss and family, along with light romantic content.

Why we rated This adventure ends LE (Mild)

This adventure ends is written at a Level 3-4 reading level across 308 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 This adventure ends as LE (Mild, mostly emotional) because the content sits in the "Mild" range — mild conflict — the kind a child encounters in normal play and sibling life. Across our four dimensions (emotional, physical, social, thematic) the book reads as evenly mild; no single dimension stands out as a concern.

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

Thematically, This adventure ends explores families, friendship, coming of age, and social customs — 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 families, friendship, coming of age.

Maybe not for

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

For Parents

Content Intensity

LE · Mild · Emotional

Emotional

Mild ←

Physical

Gentle

Social

Mild

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

Light conflict or tension. Mild peril resolved quickly.

Data confidence: high

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