Cathy’s Comments (group member since Jan 12, 2011)

Cathy’s comments from the Clean Reads group.

Yep, you're right about juvenile (middle-grade); it's written for younger readers so is pretty clean. But YA can be clean or absolutely NOT clean at all. It's sad that it's so hard to know what is clean if we want something written for our age group, though. That's what makes this group useful and a few websites out there that focus on this, like Rated Reads (http://ratedreads.com/about-rated-rea...).

Mark wrote: "I like E. Nesbit's stuff (most of which is juvenile fiction—some is fantasy).

I find I have an extremely high success rate of finding clean books among the following:
• Books in the juvenile ficti..."

I have to disagree with your take on City of Bones. I absolutely LOVED that whole series, but they're not clean. There's a lot of gory violence, and while the first book doesn't have much sexual content, as the series progresses, the sexual content gets ramped up. In the last one, there's some heavy action by the main characters that goes almost "all the way."
Here's what I said about it on my reviewing site:
http://ratedreads.com/city-lost-souls...

Thalia wrote: "Matched by Ally Condie was great! Completely clean and I couldn't stop reading.

City of Bones and the rest of the Mortal Instruments series is completely clean as well.

Among the Hidden and the S..."

Melissa wrote: "Alaura wrote: "Edenbrooke. It's a period piece that feels like a Jane Austen novel but written in more modern language. Loved it!"
Ditto - I read "Edenbrooke" by Julianne Donaldson and it was sup..."

Yes, that was a wonderful one. And bonus: it's newly published, and there will be more to come in a series of "proper romances."

Agreed!

Terri wrote: "I'd love to hear some recommendations you have for good clean books you've read lately. Here's a few of mine:

In YA fiction -
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg is historical fiction set..."