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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Series:
Last apprentice volume 4.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 6.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Now 13 years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.

4. Darke

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Series:
Septimus Heap volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Apprentice Septimus Heap must enter the Darke to save the Castle and the Wizard Tower from destruction, but he needs the help of many to battle the spreading Darkenesse.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 13.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"Thomas Ward faces his ultimate test as he and his master prepare to deal with the Fiend once and for all"--

6. Fyre

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Series:
Septimus Heap volume 7.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Septimus, Jenna, and Beetle assume larger roles in their Magykal world and continue Septimus' efforts to defeat the Dark Domaine by relighting the ancient Alchemie Fyre, a task that reveals magical origins and tests key loyalties.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 9.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 10.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
As creatures of the dark hunt for the witch assassin Grimalkin, who carries the captured Fiend's head, Spook's apprentice Tom tries to find a way to finish this terrifying evil once and for all.
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Alice and five other apprentice Readers face the fight of their lives when they are sent into the magical library of a late rival Reader--a library that's still protected by a vicious guardian.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.

11. Physik

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Series:
Septimus Heap volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Pulled through a glass that brings him back in time, Septimus Heap becomes the apprentice of an alchemist.

12. Queste

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Series:
Septimus Heap volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Nicki and Snorri are trapped in Time, and Septimus Heap goes on a quest to find the House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Apprentice Tom and the Spook for whom he works flee to Ireland, where a powerful witch has joined forces with the dark mages trying to call forth ancient powers to destroy Tom.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Returning from Greece, Tom and the Spook find that their home, including the Spook's precious library of knowledge, has been burned to the ground, and that their battle against the denizens of the dark must continue.

16. Slither

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Series:
Last apprentice volume 11.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Slither lurks in woods and towns, hunting for human blood, but before he can feast on three lovely sisters, their dying father binds the monster to a bargain.

17. Syren

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Series:
Septimus Heap volume 5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Wolf Boy is sent on a Task by Aunt Zelda, while Septimus and the dragon, Spit Fyre, fly off to bring their friends home, but they all wind up on an island whose secrets are as dangerous as its inhabitants.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
The continuing adventures of Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son and apprentice to the local Spook, who faces danger and death daily in his job protecting the region from evil.