Murphy101 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 I want to buy her a complete book series. A clean one. That we don't already own. It doesn't have to be a popular teen one, as long as it is mostly clean. (Clean = not a bunch of sex/boy crazy stuff. We both find that rather boring. Mild swearing can be ignored as long as it isn't on every page. Because again, that's boring.) Some book series she's liked: The dead and gone Princess Academy The Dredsen files (has not gotten to the last few books that are a bit racier) and Alera Codex Rangers apprentice Rick Rordan all of them 5th wave trilogy Virals by Kathy Reichs (liked this a lot she says) Hunger Games, divergent maze runner - fun fluff but she's bored with the basic same story theme Does anyone have suggestions to make? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 The Belgariad by David Eddings. Although go ahead and get the Mallorean while you are at it, because she'll want to see what happens next. There is some romance, but it's very safely PG, and it's a small part of the larger story. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemiSweet Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 The Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson. They aren't teen specific, but dh and I and ds12 all loved them. He has more now, but the first 3 are the root of the series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 My 15yo is getting the Miss Peregrine's series. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abba12 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 My favourite series ever was Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce, we were just talking about it on the Gen Ed forum this month. There's a bit of seuxal/boy content, to be expected from a teen girls book, but it's definitely not over the top, and is easily skimmed over (the 'sex scenes', if you can call them that, are done fade away style, no details). Her 'boyfriends' across the series are major characters in their own right, but the relationships are not the focus of the series by any means, they're a side plot. No real swearing (I think bastard appears a couple of times... or is that in Wild Magic, a later series?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I was going to mention the Miss Peregrin books too. WARNING: The series is ongoing. Not finished yet. Cliffhangers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) Some of Dorothy Sayer's books of the Lord Peter Wimsey series? The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry (set in Victorian times) The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters (set in Victoriran / Edwardian times) A few of Jane Austen's books: "Emma," "Pride & Prejudice," etc. Any book by Colleen Coble (mystery with some clean romance) (contemporary) Books by Irene Hannon i.e. the Protector Series or Heroes of Quantico (contemporary) Edited December 22, 2015 by Liz CA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I just read this article today: http://club31women.com/2015/09/six-series-christian-teen-girls-moms/ 6 Series of books Christian Teen Girls will love. Both of the series on there I have read are good so I was going to look into the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Does she like Jessica Day George? There's the Dragon Slippers series and the Twelve Dancing Princesses books. I love Patricia Wrede's Frontier Magic trilogy. Very clean. She likes Princess Academy -- did she read the two sequels? Does she like Hale's Books of Bayern? (Goose Girl, etc) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted December 22, 2015 Author Share Posted December 22, 2015 Does she like Jessica Day George? There's the Dragon Slippers series and the Twelve Dancing Princesses books. I love Patricia Wrede's Frontier Magic trilogy. Very clean. She likes Princess Academy -- did she read the two sequels? Does she like Hale's Books of Bayern? (Goose Girl, etc) She has read Wrede books and liked them. And yes, she's current on all the book series I listed except for the Dresden files. Off to google some of the others listed in the thread... She doesn't mind relationship stuff. So the characters falling in love or being interested in each other isn't a problem. But that isn't about sex scenes and being boy crazy to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd293 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Gail Carriger's Finishing School series. Dd15 has enjoyed them on audiobook. As have I, actually! Also the Miss Peregrine's series - she is getting the second book this Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I enjoyed the Shadowfell trilogy by Juliet Marillier. It's a clean series, fantasy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) This is a slightly different suggestion, but a series l adored:) it is very clean historical Drama about WW2, it is LDS-based, but the series stands completely alone with nothing that would be problematic with Christian faith.. Children of the promise series: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/571508.Rumors_of_War Edited December 22, 2015 by Kerileanne99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I really, really liked the Imperial Radch trilogy, and at her age books don't have to be explicitly YA, do they? Other choices: The American Fairy trilogy (starting with Dust Girl) The Lunar Chronicles (more romance than I personally love,but there's plenty of other stuff and no sex) Salvage and sequel Sound The Leviathan trilogy The Young Wizards series (NOT complete, the new one is out in a few months) When We Wake (two books) Ash Mistry (may be a bit young, but I enjoyed it) The Clockwork Dark series The Farsala Trilogy The Patternmaster books by Octavia Butler The Bartimaeus series The Kiki Strike books Starglass (wasn't a fan of the conclusion) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 The Number One Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) Based on the ones you listed.... Ender's Game Seanan McGuire's October Daye series Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series possibly Shannon Myer's Rylee Adamson series, a bit of raciness, but less than most paranormal and really fantastic Tomorrow When the War Began is a fantastic series too, kind of Red Dawn in Australia Edited December 22, 2015 by Lizzie in Ma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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