Overall Content Rating: Parental Guidance PG
The story centers on middle-school-aged students navigating friendships, school events, and a mysterious adult figure, with light humor and emotional tension rather than adult themes. Parental concerns in the sampled material are mostly limited to how kids talk to each other and minor physical horseplay. There is no sexual content, strong profanity, horror, or serious violence in the passages reviewed for this description. Objectionable elements are mild: brief crude insults and friendly roughhousing. Parents who prefer books with no insulting language or any physical scuffling between characters may still want to preview those interactions.
Reviews first uploaded October 8, 2026 4:13 pm. Page updated October 8, 2026 4:13 pm.
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Crude Mild
2Language includes occasional name-calling and put-downs between kids, mainly in moments of frustration or misunderstanding. Insults are infrequent in the samples and are not sustained bullying throughout the scenes shown.
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- idiot: 1
- stupid: 1
Violence Mild
4Physical conflict is limited and mild. Classmates sometimes jostle or lightly strike each other in a playful way, and one character vents by kicking a desk. Dialogue includes a fleeting thought about someone deserving a punch, but the sampled matches are not graphic injuries or sustained fighting.
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- punch: 3
- kick: 1
About this book
Riverton Elementary’s library has never felt so evil. Still adjusting to his new talent to sense others emotions, Jim Forbes can’t tell who feels the hatred or why. His friends can do cool things like read minds or move things by thinking. If he could be more like his hero, Blake Savage, a teenaged TV spy, everyone would pay attention to him and his ideas. Of course, Dr. Grey of the Institute for Genetic Improvement has different plans for the Tweaks. He’s back on their trail and determined to make money from their abilities. Spy craft and genetically enhanced skills might be enough to keep them safe if they can learn to get along with each other long enough to finish an op. Read more