Clean reads for Fall 2023

Welcome! Thanks for joining us in our quest to find clean books for young teens, older teens, and even adults. If you’re having a hard time finding books without all the language, sex, or mature situations for you and your teens, you’re not alone. Lots of kids and parents are looking for them, and we’ve…

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Bringing Back The Classics

There have been many attempts to define what constitutes a Classic…..Whilst some hold the Western Canon as the last word in this matter, others—like Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve in the 1850s up to Italo Calvino in the 1980s—have attempted to define this wide and ever-fluid genre. Everyone has interpretations, but no one dare approach a concrete…

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Clean books for young teens or anyone | Great reads for Summertime

Welcome! Thanks for joining us in our quest to find clean books for young teens, older teens, and even adults. If you’re having a hard time finding books without all the language, sex, or mature situations for you and your teens, you’re not alone. Lots of kids and parents are looking for them, and we’ve…

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New Clean Young Adult Books 2023

Hello again! And a warm welcome to all our new subscribers. (There are a lot of you!) Thanks for joining us in our quest to find clean books for teens and adults. If you’re having a hard time finding books without all the language, sex, or mature situations for you and your teens, you’re not…

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Clean books for the holidays – Clean reads newsletter

Hello again! We’re excited to share more of our clean book finds with you! Since we have so many new subscribers, we decided to make this newsletter as detailed as possible so you’re equipped to stuff those stockings with clean books for the holidays. Take a look. ⤵️-Sara & Stacy   **This newsletter is part of…

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BSR Newsletter – YA book recs 2022 – Summer

Hi there! We hope you’ve had plenty of time to read a few fabulous books this summer. Have you found anything extraordinary we should know about? If so, please reply to this email and tell us about them!  In this newsletter, you’ll find a fun interview with authors Sara Ella and Nadine Brandes. We also want…

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Clean YA books for teens, tweens, or anyone

There is a particular conversation that keeps cropping up between Stacy and me (the editors of this website…who both happen to be moms of teens) and many of our readers: the face of YA is changing. There is no doubt about it. Young Adult books are becoming more and more mature, and the trend will…

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