With summer coming, I want to leave my students with a list of good clean teen reads. These are free of sex, graphic violence and swearing. All listed are among my very favorites that I’ve personally read and reviewed over the years at Fire and Ice.
Focused: Keeping Your Life on Track, One Choice at a Time
Daughter of Helaman (Stripling Warrior Book 1)
Fight For You (Stripling Warrior Book 2)
Waterfall: A Novel (River of Time Series)
Pride and Popularity (The Jane Austen Diaries Book 1)
Heist Society (A Heist Society Novel)
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
one scene with drinking
Finding June (The June Series Book 1)
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls)
The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern)
Chelsea Yates
I would recommend Karyn Folan’s Doomsday Kids series. They are apocalyptic adventure that certainly have their fair share of traumatic moments but not filled with unnecessary violence and I don’t think they ever cross any inappropriate boundries. They are far more emotionally driven with a refreshingly diverse range of characters from all backgrounds that I think is really great for kids to read. Well worth checking out.
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