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 "Attack of the Fiend"
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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.
Book cover for "Curse of the bane"
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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.
Book cover for "Grimalkin, the witch assassin"
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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.
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 "Howl's moving castle"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
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Series:
Last apprentice volume 12.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
"Alice Dean's destiny is intertwined with Tom Ward's. But he's going to be the next Spook, and she's a witch--possibly the most powerful one the county has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark"--
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Series:
The thickety volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Kara and her brother, Taff, must find the hidden pieces of Princess Evangeline's grimoire to defeat Rygoth and her army of witches.
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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.
Book cover for "Night of the soul-stealer"
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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.
Book cover for "Rage of the fallen"
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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.
Book cover for "Revenge of the witch"
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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.
Book cover for "Wrath of the Bloodeye"
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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.