Clean

Reads

Books that won’t make you blush—

no edgy stuff here!

Airborn

by Kenneth Oppel

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship,

and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with

her chaperone, team up to search for the

existence of mysterious winged creatures

reportedly living hundreds of feet above

Earth’s surface.

Back When You Were Easier to

Love

by Emily Wing Smith

When her boyfriend Zan leaves high school

in Utah a year early to attend Pitzer Col-

lege, a broken-hearted Joy and Zan’s best

friend Noah take a road trip to California

seeking “closure.”

The Dark Divine

by Bree Despain

Grace Divine, almost 17, learns a dark secret

when her childhood friend — practically a

brother — returns, upsetting her pastor-father

and the rest of her family. Around that same

time, strange things are happening in and near their small Min-

nesota town.

The Near Witch

by Victoria Schwab

16-year-old Lexie, who lives in an en-

chanted moor at the edge of the village of

Near, must solve the mystery when, the day

after a strange boy appears in town, chil-

dren start disappearing.

Try these, too!

Find these books in the teen area under author’s last name. Heist Society

by Ally Carter

A group of teenagers uses their combined

talents to re-steal several priceless paintings

and save 15-year-old Kat Bishop’s father,

himself an international art thief, from a

vengeful collector.

Uglies

by Scott Westerfeld

Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous.

What could be wrong with that? Tally is

about to turn 16, and she can’t wait for

turning pretty. In Tally’s world, your 16th

birthday brings an operation that turns you

from ugly into pretty and catapults you into

high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a good time.

But Tally’s new friend, Shay, isn’t sure she wants to be pretty.

When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of

the pretty world — and it isn’t very pretty.

Paranormalcy

by Kiersten White

When a dark prophecy begins to come true,

16-year-old Evie, of the International Para-

normal Containment Agency, must not only

try to stop it, she must also uncover its con-

nection to herself and the alluring

shapeshifter, Lend.

Ruined

by Paula Morris

Rebecca goes to New Orleans to stay with her

aunt, sees the destruction of Hurricane

Katrina, and happens to meet a ghost girl

named Lisette.

Sean Griswold’s Head

by Lindsey Leavitt

After discovering her father has multiple scle-

rosis, 15-year-old Payton begins counseling

sessions at school, which lead her to become

interested in a boy in her biology class, have

a falling out with her best friend, develop an

interest in bike riding, and eventually allow her to come to terms

with life’s uncertainties.

Son of the Mob

by Gordon Korman

17-year-old Vince’s life is constantly com-

plicated by the fact that he is the son of a

powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that

threatens to destroy his romance with the

daughter of an FBI agent.

Somebody Everybody Listens To

by Suzanne Supplee

Upon graduating from high school in the tiny

town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country

singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself

to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck

and hard times, she tries to persevere in pur-

suing her dreams.

The Possibilities of Sainthood

by Donna Freitas

While regularly petitioning the Vatican to

make her the first living saint, 15-year-old

Antonia prays to assorted patron saints for

everything from help with preparing the

family’s fig trees for Rhode Island winter to

getting her first kiss from the right boy.

Elsewhere

by Gabrielle Zevin

After 15-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and

killed, she finds herself in a place that is

both like and unlike Earth, where she must

adjust to her new status and figure out how

to “live” again.

The Goose Girl

by Shannon Hale

On her way to marry a prince she’s never

met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her

guards and her lady-in-waiting and must

become a goose girl to survive until she can

reveal her true identity and reclaim the

crown that is rightfully hers. This is the first book in the Books

of Bayern series, and all of the books in this series are clean

reads.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

by Mary E. Pearson

In the not-too-distant future, when biotech-

nological advances have made synthetic

bodies and brains possible but illegal, a 17

-year-old girl, recovering from a serious

accident and suffering from memory

lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

You Wish

by Mandy Hubbard

Kayla McHenry’s life is transformed when a

wish on her 16th birthday comes true —

along with all of her precious birthday

wishes, beginning with the appearance of a

large pink pony.