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Fight Game — Content Guide for Parents

By Kate WildScholasticISBN 9780545153911279 pages
Fight Game

Found in this book

  • ViolenceCentral
  • Scary contentSupporting
  • Race & cultureSupporting

Not found

  • Religion
  • Climate
  • Sexual content
  • Gender roles
  • Gender & orientation

Couldn't confirm

  • Profanity
  • Profanity: No source lists swear words in the book itself, and one reviewer says the author does not lean on swearing, so we cannot say how much there is.

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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

Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith is a fighter, just like all of his relatives who have the "Hercules gene," which leads him to a choice between being jailed for attempted murder or working with a covert law enforcement agency to break up a mysterious, illegal fight ring

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Fight Game appropriate for a 7-year-old?

    Fights run through the story, including a brawl with skinheads, an underground fight club with abused young fighters, and a reviewer calls the brutality overwhelming for some readers. The story involves a sinister, high-tech fight club that abuses street children and uses drug-manipulated death matches, with a lot of danger and suspense.

  • Does Fight Game have violence?

    Found (Central): Fights run through the story, including a brawl with skinheads, an underground fight club with abused young fighters, and a reviewer calls the brutality overwhelming for some readers.

  • Does Fight Game have scary content?

    Found (Supporting): The story involves a sinister, high-tech fight club that abuses street children and uses drug-manipulated death matches, with a lot of danger and suspense.

  • Does Fight Game have religion?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Fight Game have race & culture?

    Found (Supporting): Freedom is a Gypsy (Traveller) boy who faces prejudice, including skinheads who threaten his family's camp and police who assume he is guilty because of who he is.

  • Does Fight Game have profanity?

    Couldn't confirm: No source lists swear words in the book itself, and one reviewer says the author does not lean on swearing, so we cannot say how much there is.

  • Does Fight Game have climate?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Fight Game have sexual content?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Fight Game have gender roles?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Fight Game have gender & orientation?

    Not found in the sources we checked.