Kim Scott asked Brigid Kemmerer:

I am a high school library media specialist, and I want to personally thank Mrs. Brigid Kemmerer for writing Letters to the Lost. It was a wonderfully written, clean romance for my students to read!!! I'm just starting More Than We Can Tell. What others have you written that I need to be aware of?

Brigid Kemmerer I'm sorry I just saw this! And thank you! Letters to the Lost is so special to me, and is definitely the best known of my YA contemporaries. Both Letters and More Than We Can Tell are generally the same level of romance (nothing goes further than kissing, and there's no real profanity), though Call It What You Want does have a little bit of swearing and a slightly more intimate scene. (A girl's shirt comes off.)

If your students enjoy fantasy, the Cursebreaker series would also be a good start, with nothing more explicit than what you found in Letters to the Lost. The first book is A Curse So Dark and Lonely.

I also have the Defy the Night series, which is also limited on profanity and intimacy, though the royal intrigue and political issues in the series might be a little heavier for younger readers.

I hope this helps! And thank you!

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