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. Julie of the wolves

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Author:
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012
Series:
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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Description:
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

2. Life of Pi: a novel

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Author:
Martel, Yann
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

3. Mattimeo

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Author:
Jacques, Brian
Series:
Redwall volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse Matthias, learns to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of Redwall Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders.

4. Number the stars

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Author:
Lowry, Lois
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

5. Redwall

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Author:
Jacques, Brian
Series:
Redwall volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.

6. The witch of Blackbird Pond

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Author:
Speare, Elizabeth George
Average Rating:
3.1 stars
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Description:
Now an orphan, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados, where she grew up, to live with her strict Puritan uncle in Connecticut.