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Clean Teen Reads
On May 15, 2014 Compass Book Ratings acquired CleanTeenReads.com. Many reviews were acquired from CleanTeenReads.com and these reviews were not completed using Compass Book Ratings’ standardized checklist. Nevertheless, the reviews contain useful content information which is included.
Can you name ten teens who influenced US history? Five? One? If you’re like me and only Pocohantas comes to mind, this book will help you learn about many others.    There are famo…
Ninth-grader Cody Elliot is deliberately failing at school, so his dad decides to find him a different school. Our Lady of Perpetual Homework sounds pretty scary, so Cody transfers to Vlad Drac Magnet…
Based on extensive research, this novel chronicles the shirtwaist workers' strike of 1909 and 1910 and the devastating fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that occurred over 100 years ago, "t…
    The fourteen-year-old emperor is refusing to perform his duties, and without the emperor, people won’t plant their rice, the harvest will be poor, no one will pay their taxes—the ef…
When I was young, I always liked best the fairy tales where it was not a prince who rescued the princess but a commoner who was required to take on superhuman tasks to win the hand of the princess.&nb…
Eleven-year-old Griffin Bing is The Man with the Plan: he plans a sleepover in a condemned house where he finds a valuable baseball card that he sells; when he realizes he’s been swindl…
 Sixth-grader, Neela Krishnan loves playing her veena, a stringed instrument from India, given to her by her grandmother. One day she takes it to school to give a report on it. On the way home, a…
If you’ve seen the 1993 Disney movie Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey with the animals speaking, you'll find some of the same events here, but the flavor of this charming book is entir…
A lively introduction to the solar system, beginning with the ideas of primitive star gazers and continuing up through Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and on to the modern world. The …
This book is on my local library’s list of most popular teen books. I can see why—it’s a lively story that addresses important issues without labeling them: racism, social inequality, and most of all,…
Some young adult books inspire by showing a teen succeeding against great odds; this book isn’t one of them. Instead, this book, written in free verse, deals with what happens when a dream doesn’t com…
What female doesn’t enjoy Austen’s witty tale of the five Bennett sisters and their romantic misadventures? Your teen will fall in love with the story all over again as each character comes …
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