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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Book cover for "Circus Mirandus"
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Series:
Circus Mirandus volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life.
Book cover for "Diary of a wimpy kid"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?
Book cover for "Fish in a tree"
Star rating for Fish in a tree
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--
Book cover for "The forbidden library"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includes a massive and mysterious library that holds much more than books.
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
Star rating for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the goblet of fire"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
Book cover for "The Night Gardener"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Book cover for "The odds of getting even"
Star rating for The odds of getting even
Series:
Tupelo Landing volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Desperado Detectives--aka Mo Lo Beau and her best friend Dale, along with newly-appointed intern, Harm Crenshaw--must take on a new case when Dale's daddy goes on the lam just before his trial is about to start"--
Book cover for "Stella by starlight"
Star rating for Stella by starlight
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
Book cover for "The Water Castle"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Blurring the lines between magic and science, award-winning author Megan Frazer Blakemore invites readers to search for the elusive Fountain of Youth.
Ephraim Appledore-Smith is an ordinary boy living an ordinary life. But everything changes when his father has a stroke and his family moves back to their ancestral home, the Water Castle. There Ephraim meets Mallory Green and Will Wylie, whose families are tied to the Water Castle's powerful...