Clean Reads
Between the Lines – Jodi PicoultAfter accidentally kneecapping her school’s head cheerleader, Delilah becomes a social outcast. Since she only has one friend, she spends most of her free time lost in a book. She’s read her favorite fairy tale so many times that she knows it by heart and has even developed a crush on the handsome prince who’s the hero of the story. If only he was real… |
Princess Ben – Catherine Gilbert MurdockWith the help of some courtly instruction, determination, and magic, sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben is transformed into Crown Princess Benevolence. |
Hope Was Here – Joan BauerWhen 16-year old Hope and her aunt move from Brooklyn to Wisconsin to work at a diner, they become involved with the diner owner’s campaign to oust the town’s corrupt mayor. |
Jeremy Fink & the Meaning of Life – Wendy MassJust before his 13th birthday, Jeremy receives a keyless, locked box that his father set aside before his death five years earlier, that supposedly contains the meaning of life. |
The Goose Girl — Shannon HaleOn her way to marry a prince she’s never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and 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. |
Shadow Children Series — Margaret Peterson HaddixIn a future where families are only allowed 2 children, Luke has spent his whole life in hiding. But when another “third” convinces him the government is wrong, his whole life changes… |
The City of Ember — Jeanne DuPrauIn the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. |
Just One Wish — Janette RallisonSeventeen-year-old Annika tries to cheer up her little brother Jeremy before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor by bringing home his favorite television actor, Steve Raleigh, the star of “Teen Robin Hood.” |
The Gallagher Girls Series — Ally CarterLife’s not easy when you go to a secret school for genius spies. Cammie’s about to find out that falling in love makes it even harder! |
Cupcake Queen — Heather HeplerThough she misses New York City, 13-year-old Penny tries to make the best of her new life in a seaside town, spending time working in her mother’s bakery, avoiding the Mean Girls, and beginning new relationships. |
Mad Love – Suzanne SelforsWhen her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother’s contract with her publisher by writing a love story–with the help of Cupid. |
A Long, Long Sleep – Anna SheehanSixteen-year-old Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after sixty years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin. |
Artemis Fowl — Eoin ColferWhen a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a very nasty troll. |


Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer
Jeremy Fink & the Meaning of Life – Wendy Mass
The Goose Girl — Shannon Hale
The City of Ember — Jeanne DuPrau
Just One Wish — Janette Rallison
The Gallagher Girls Series — Ally Carter
Cupcake Queen — Heather Hepler

Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer