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 "Belly up"
Star rating for Belly up
Series:
FunJungle volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.
Book cover for "Big game"
Star rating for Big game
Series:
FunJungle volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"Someone is trying to hunt FunJungle's Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, and twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is on the case"--

3. Chomp

Book cover for "Chomp"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to findhim while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Book cover for "The extraordinary education of Nicholas Benedict"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.

5. Flush

Book cover for "Flush"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
Book cover for "Fuzzy mud"
Star rating for Fuzzy mud
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--
Book cover for "The ghosts of Tupelo Landing"
Star rating for The ghosts of Tupelo Landing
Series:
Tupelo Landing volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--

8. Hoot

Book cover for "Hoot"
Star rating for Hoot
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Book cover for "Moon over Manifest"
Star rating for Moon over Manifest
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Book cover for "The mysterious Benedict Society"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
Book cover for "The mysterious Benedict Society and the perilous journey"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
Book cover for "The mysterious Benedict Society and the prisoner's dilemma"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, Benedict Society members Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance follow clues on an adventure that threatens to separate them from their families, friends, and even one another.
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 "Panda-monium"
Star rating for Panda-monium
Series:
FunJungle volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Teddy Fitzroy must solve the crime of the kidnapped rare and expensive panda, Li Ping.

15. Poached

Book cover for "Poached"
Star rating for Poached
Series:
FunJungle volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is the prime suspect when FunJungle's newly-acquired koala goes missing, thanks to a prank staged by middle school bully Vance Jessup.
Book cover for "Point blank"
Star rating for Point blank
Series:
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps. Alex, a fourteen-year-old spy, has been assigned by the British MI6 to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. He ends up in a boarding school in the Alps, and finds many strange things are happening to the students.
Book cover for "Sammy Keyes and the art of deception"
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Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates mysterious happenings at a local art gallery.
Book cover for "Sammy Keyes and the curse of Moustache Mary"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.
Book cover for "Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway"
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The tenth mystery in the popular Sammy Keyes series offers more spirit and adventure than ever! Sammy accidentally makes a deadly mistake, but all clues point to her nemesis Heather, and she gets blamed. As Sammy struggles with her conscience she gets distracted helping an ailing senior citizen in her fight against urban renewal.

Book cover for "Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood mummy"
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A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.