Clean Reads for Tweens

Young Adult and Middle Grade novels that are clean reads for tweens - older elementary to young high school. 'Clean' as in no reference to sex and limited violence however there may be some action. Use your best judgment.
 

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1. Castle in the air

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Author:
Jones, Diana Wynne
Series:
Howl's moving castle (Diana Wynne Jones) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Morrisville Community - Young Adult
YA JONES
North Regional - Young Adult has 2
YA JONES
Southeast Regional - Young Adult
YA JONES
Description:
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.

2. Conrad's Fate

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Author:
Jones, Diana Wynne
Series:
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 0006
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5 stars
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Someone at Stallery Mansion is changing the world. At first, only small details, but the changes get bigger and bigger. It's up to Conrad, a twelve-year-old with terrible karma who's just joined the mansion's staff, to find out who is behind it.

But he's not the only one snooping around. His fellow servant-in-training, Christopher Chant, is charming, confident, and from another world, with a mission of his own—rescuing his friend,

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3. House of many ways

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Author:
Jones, Diana Wynne
Series:
Howl's moving castle (Diana Wynne Jones) volume 3.
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4.3 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA JONES
Fuquay-Varina Community - Young Adult has 2
YA JONES
Middlecreek Community - Young Adult
YA JONES
Description:
When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house is much more than it seems.

4. Howl's moving castle

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Author:
Jones, Diana Wynne
Series:
Howl's moving castle (Diana Wynne Jones) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.

5. The islands of Chaldea

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Author:
Jones, Diana Wynne
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Cary Regional - Childrens Fiction
J JONES
North Regional - Childrens Fiction
J JONES
Description:
Aileen's family of magic makers includes Aunt Beck, the most powerful magician on Skarr, but her own magic does not show itself until a mission for the King and a magical cat help her find strength and confidence.

6. The Lives of Christopher Chant

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Author:
Jones, Diana Wynne
Series:
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 4
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5 stars
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Horn Book Fanfare

ALA Notable Children's Book

Nebula Award

His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he can bring real, solid things back from his dreams.

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