Clean Teen Reads
Limited or no sexual content, mild to no profanity and mild to no violence*
Realistic Fiction: School, Sports, Relationships
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
All’s Fair in Love, War and High School by Janette Rallison
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Face-Off by Stacy Juba (hockey, high school)
Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein (sports, mystery)
Flavor of the Week by Tucker Shaw
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draaden
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Lucky T by Kate Brian
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Fantasy, Steampunk, Science Fiction, Dystopia
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
The Alchemist: the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott (Book 1 in a series)
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Breathe by Sarah Crossan
Entwined by Heather Dixon
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Book I of a trilogy)
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Legend by Marie Lu (Book 1 of a trilogy)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Book I of a trilogy)
Maze Runner by James Dashner
Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Swept Up by the Sea by Tracy and Laura Hickman
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rea Carson
Historical Fiction
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
The Daughter’s Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Fire Horse Girl by Kay Honeyman
The Frankincense Trail by Jody Kihara
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (on NPR’s list of top 100 teen titles)
The Lovely Shoes by Susan Shreve
The Water Seeker by Kimberly Willis Holt
The Year We Were Famous by Carole Estby Dagg
Mystery/Crime/Adventure
Death Cloud by Andy Lane
The Heist Society by Ally Carter
A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia De Luce series) by Alan C. Bradley
Middle School Reads
Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry–fantasy
Beauty by Robin McKinley–fantasy
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams–mystery
My Life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald–realistic fiction
London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd–mystery
Ninjas, Piranhas and Galileo by Greg Letiech Smith—realistic fiction
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman–realistic fiction
The Outcasts by John Flanagan (Book 1 in the Brotherband Chronicles)
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale–fantasy
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot–fantasy
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares–realistic fiction
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt–historical fiction
Wonder by R.J. Palacio–realistic fiction
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
* Please note that this list was compiled using ratings, recommendations and descriptions of books by other reviewers. Some titles may not fit your definition of a “clean read.”