Until Friday Night

Name: Until Friday Night
Author: Abbi Glines
ISBN: 9781481438858

Age Rating, Reading Level & Content Guide

by Abbi Glines

Reading Level 3 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

Have you ever felt like your whole world changed overnight? In a small town where Friday night means football, West and Maggie are each carrying a heavy heart. What will happen when their paths cross under the bright stadium lights?

Themes

GriefFootballRomanceEmotional Problems

Quick Assessment

Two teens who seem to have little in common, a star football player and a new classmate, find comfort in each other while coping with serious loss: West's father is dying of cancer, and Maggie stopped speaking after her father killed her mother. The story deals with grief, family tragedy, and emotional pain, along with teen parties and a developing romance that stays fairly low on explicit detail. It suits older teen readers, and parents may want to talk through the violence behind Maggie's loss and her silence.

Why we rated Until Friday Night ME (Moderate)

Until Friday Night is written at a Level 3 reading level across 328 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 Until Friday Night 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 — 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, Until Friday Night explores grief, football, romance, and emotional problems — 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 grief, football, romance.

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

Gentle

Social

Mild

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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