Blood City Rollers — Content Guide for Parents

By V.P. AndersonRandom House Children's BooksISBN 9780593485699192 pages

Blood City Rollers

Found in this book

ViolenceSupporting
Scary contentSupporting
Gender & orientationCentral

Not found

Religion
Race & culture
Profanity
Climate
Sexual content
Gender roles

Content themes

Factual summary of themes present in this book. No opinion — just the facts.

Violence

Supporting

Bullying and rough play run through the book, vampires drink the blood of delivery people, and a monster attack sends a character falling off a roof; the guide says it is not graphic.

“Bullying and some rough play are present throughout.” commonsensemedia.org
“A monster attack leaves a main character severely injured, but the scene is not graphic or gory and she recovers.” commonsensemedia.org

Scary content

Supporting

Mina is abducted by vampires, vampires drink blood, and a monster attacks a character, in a comic paranormal setting.

“Abduction by vampires and held hostage to compete on roller derby team.” commonsensemedia.org
“Monster attacks main character resulting in a fall from the roof.” commonsensemedia.org

Gender & orientation

Central

Mina is a queer teen with a crush on the team captain, and the team is a queer found family whose members use varied pronouns.

“Main character is a queer teen crushing hard on the roller derby captain.” commonsensemedia.org
“Queerness is never treated as abnormal or bad, though it's a theme throughout, especially as the characters find family with each other.” comicsbeat.com
“Characters use wide variety of non-binary (they/them) and femme pronouns (she/her)” commonsensemedia.org

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Religion

PRESENT

Contains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.

About this book

Skates on. Fangs out. Let’s roll. This perfectly paranormal graphic novel about a 13-year-old ice skater who embraces the dark side and finds her light when she joins a vampire roller derby team is to die for.

Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself "recruited" by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.

Between learning to play derby well enough to kick butt on the track, crushing hard on the dreamy team captain, and navigating the spooky rules of the supernatural, how can Mina go from striving to be a ten alone, to becoming one of nine chaotic bodies forming a perfectly-imperfect team? Forget being the best. Will she be enough to help her new friends survive the season?

Frequently asked questions

Is Blood City Rollers appropriate for a 7-year-old?
Bullying and rough play run through the book, vampires drink the blood of delivery people, and a monster attack sends a character falling off a roof; the guide says it is not graphic. Mina is abducted by vampires, vampires drink blood, and a monster attacks a character, in a comic paranormal setting.
Does Blood City Rollers have violence?
Found (Supporting): Bullying and rough play run through the book, vampires drink the blood of delivery people, and a monster attack sends a character falling off a roof; the guide says it is not graphic.
Does Blood City Rollers have scary content?
Found (Supporting): Mina is abducted by vampires, vampires drink blood, and a monster attacks a character, in a comic paranormal setting.
Does Blood City Rollers have religion?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Blood City Rollers have race & culture?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Blood City Rollers have profanity?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Blood City Rollers have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Blood City Rollers have sexual content?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Blood City Rollers have gender roles?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Blood City Rollers have gender & orientation?
Found (Central): Mina is a queer teen with a crush on the team captain, and the team is a queer found family whose members use varied pronouns.

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