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 "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.
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Series:
Redwall volume 17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Two warrior squirrels lead the battle against Gulo, a bloodthirsty wolverine who will stop at nothing to recover the Walking Stone that will give him the authority to rule the lands of ice beyond the Great Sea.
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls. Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine. In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel.
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Series:
Three rancheros volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.

285. Redwall

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Series:
Redwall volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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.
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
Book cover for "The revenge of the baby-sat"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
The best of the popular comic strip collected in one volume follows the rambunctious adventures of six-year-old Calvin and his tiger, Hobbes.
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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:
Sixties trilogy volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
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Series:
Michael Vey volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to "restructure" the world. Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special powers, joins his best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle foes in...
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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 "Rise of the wolf"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Now a driver in the chariot races, Nic is still a target of the Praetors because of the magical amulet he found, and they will do anything to get their hands on it--and meanwhile Atroxia is beginning to wake up.
Book cover for "The Rithmatist"
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Series:
Rithmatist volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
Book cover for "River Secrets"
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Series:
Books of Bayern volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in anenemy land.

295. The roar

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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.
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Series:
Redwall volume 22.
Description:
The murderous and evil Razzid Wearat and his crew of vermin are on a mission to seize Redwall Abbey for themselves, and Abbot Thibb and his Redwallers must defend their home with the help of the hares of the Longpatrol and the Rogue Crew of sea otters.
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart. "A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"--
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
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Series:
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Book cover for "The Sable Quean"
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Series:
Redwall volume 21.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The courageous Redwall creatures band together as Vilaya, the evil Sable Quean, and her horde of vermin attempt to make off with the young animals of the Abbey.