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. Inkdeath

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Author:
Funke, Cornelia Caroline
Series:
Inkheart volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA FUNKE
Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA FUNKE
Northeast Regional - Young Adult
YA FUNKE
Description:
As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.

2. Inkheart

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Author:
Funke, Cornelia Caroline
Series:
Inkheart volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description:
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

3. Peter and the secret of Rundoon

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Author:
Barry, Dave
Series:
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Fearing that the sinister Lord Ombra was not destroyed, Peter and Molly travel to the land of Rundoon, which is ruled by the evil King Zarboff.

4. Peter and the shadow thieves

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Author:
Barry, Dave
Series:
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Childrens Fiction
J BARRY
Description:
Realizing that Molly and the other Starcatchers are in danger when the sinister being Lord Ombra visits the island and seems to control people through their shadows, Peter and Tinker Bell travel to England to help save the stardust.

5. Peter and the Starcatchers

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Author:
Barry, Dave
Series:
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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18 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Childrens Fiction has 2
J BARRY
East Regional - Childrens Fiction
J BARRY
Leesville Community - Childrens Fiction has 2
J BARRY
Description:
Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret safe away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin. Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.

6. Peter and the sword of mercy

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Author:
Barry, Dave
Series:
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Cary Regional - Childrens Fiction has 2
J BARRY
Leesville Community - Childrens Fiction
J BARRY
Description:
When shadow creatures search for a secret cache of starstuff that fell to London many centuries ago, Wendy Darling employs the help of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys to protect the Sword of Mercy--the key that unlocks the vault where the starstuff is hidden.

7. A tale dark & Grimm

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Author:
Gidwitz, Adam
Series:
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.