Clean Teen Reads
Limited or no sexual content, mild to no profanity and mild to no violence*
This list was compiled by librarians in NH through the New Hampshire State
library (August 2013)
Realistic Fiction: School, Sports, Relationships
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
All's Fair in Love, War and High School by Janette Rallison
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Face-Off by Stacy Juba (hockey, high school)
Last shot: a Final Four mystery by John Feinstein (sports, mystery)
Flavor of the Week by Tucker Shaw
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draaden
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Lucky T by Kate Brian
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Fantasy, Steampunk, Science Fiction, Dystopia
Airbornby Kenneth Oppel
The Alchemist:The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Breatheby Sarah Crossan
Entwined by Heather Dixon
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Book I of a trilogy)
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Legend by Marie Lu (Book 1 of a trilogy)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Book I of a trilogy)
Maze Runner by James Dashner
Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Swept Up by the Sea by Tracy and Laura Hickman
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rea Carson
Historical Fiction
Code Talker byJoseph Bruchac
The Daughter's Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Fire Horse Girl by Kay Honeyman
The Frankincense Trail by Jody Kihara
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (on NPR’s list of top 100 teen titles)
The Lovely Shoes by Susan Shreve
TheWater Seekerby Kimberly Willis Holt
The Year We Were Famous by Carole EstbyDagg
Mystery/Crime/Adventure
Death Cloud by Andy Lane
The Heist Society by Ally Carter
A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia De Luce series) by Alan C.
Bradley
Middle School Reads
Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
My Life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald
London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Ninjas, Piranhas and Galileo by Greg Letiech Smith—realistic fiction
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
The Outcasts by John Flanagan
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
* Please note that this list was compiled using ratings, recommendations
and descriptions of books by other reviewers. Some titles may not fit your
definition of a “clean read.”