Good clean books for young adults

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Eucharistic Miracles and Eucharistic Phenomena in the Lives of the Saints
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What type of genre were you considering?

For fiction I really liked The Princess Bride by William Goldman. It was exciting, interesting, clever, and romantic without being sexy.

Enjoy!
 
My television blew up in the huge blackout back in January, so this weekend when my brother came to visit, he was talking about reading aloud to various people and I suggested he read aloud to me. I brought him one of my favourite books from Younger Days, “The Children of Green Knowe”, and he got so interested in it that he nearly read the whole thing over the weekend and went home and bought all four books. Lucy Boston bought an old Norman-era castle keep/home near Cambridge, England and fixed it up, and she wrote four or five books about the people she imagined might have lived there, with herself as Great-Grandmother Oldknowe appearing in all the books in various centuries. The first book concerns a little boy whose parents send him from Burma to go to boarding school in England and spend the holidays with his Great-Grandmother, and about the children from the era of Charles II he meets … or does he … through the stories his Granny tells.

There are also a series of books called The Melendy Family about four children growing up in the 1940s in New York (and later New York State), and Elizabeth Enright’s “Gone-Away Lake” stories about an era when a ten-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother can be sent by train from New York City to upstate New York for a summer with their cousins, and about the old lost lakeside bungalow colony still inhabited by an elderly brother and sister who tell them stories of the days when it was a wonderful place called Tarrigo and they spent their summers there.

Finally there are Sydney Taylor’s “All-of-a-Kind Family” books about a large family of Orthodox Jews growing up in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.

Most of the “modern” young peoples’ books I have come across lately seem to be about divorce, anorexia and alternate universes. I like the books of my own childhood better.
 
Robin McKinley’s Beauty, a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” is quite clean and an entertaining, though leisurely-paced, read. Her short stories are also good. Be careful with selecting her titles, though; not all her books are aimed at nor suitable for younger folk. What I’ve read, though, has been pretty family-friendly.

Depending on the reader’s age, Andrew Clement’s Things Not Seen might also suit. Clement is more familiar in our house for engaging, elementary-grade-level books, but this one is aimed at a 14-16yo audience.

Happy hunting-
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Go to any Catholic homeschooling website - Seton, CHC, Kolbe Academy, oh - there are many - and take a look at their reading lists.

Also get your hands on a book called “Landscape With Dragons, the Battle for your Child’s Mind” by Michael O’Brien. The whole last third of the book is a recommended book list. I take mine with me to used bookstores. Some are out of print but you might be able to find them. I have a lot of luck online at thriftbooks.com.

Also - look up Theresa Fagan - she has a list called “the Mother’s LIst of Books”. She’ll send it to you for $5 or so.

Bethlehem Books has all great books. They are kind of costly but worth it.

Regina Doman has a few series out. There’s a Fairy Tales Retold series and a John Paul II High series. Google the name - she has a website you can order from.
 
I saw Glenn Beck interview author Ted Bell about Nick In Time. Genn really liked the book. It seemed like a great story of a young boy traveling thru time and rescuing his younger sister. I bought a copy for a friend.
 
“A Philadelphia Catholic in King James’ Court”. Wonderful Catholic book for teens. Written by Martin DeP. Kennedy.

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Linda
 
Thanks for all your suggestions. I am looking for clean reads (does not necessarily have to be Christian books), for my brother. It could be action or adventure, legal dramas, fiction or non-fiction.
 
I love books by Karen Kingsbury. There is one, actually a two-parter, that deals with a family and the war in Iraq. Being a military wife, it opened up a lot of feelings, but it was a fantastic read. The first one was Even Now, the one I read was Ever After.
 
…Do the Belgariad and Mallorean book series by David Eddings count???

…My screenname-sake came from those books and WOW I love them…

There’s stuff in the books, but its not really bad I suppose.

I guess I’ll need someone to confirm whether its cool or not. I’m just throwing it out there.
 
How young is “young adult”?

Anything by Dee Henderson is great! They’re kinda like action/adventure/mystery novels, with a christian theme. I wouldn’t recommend her for pre-teens though… they tend to be a little violent. For older kids it’s fine though.

Ann Rinaldi is also an amazing author! She primarily writes historical fiction. A guy might not find her books as interesting though…😉
 
For a brother I suggest the Redwall series. Check out Brian Jaques, Chuck Black ( the kingdom series), JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Mark Twain. These are favorites of my crew… Also Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller, My Friend Flicka, These are all classics and there is a good reason for it.
The suggestion about Seton and other website I whole heartedly agree with I will also suggest the Son-Light Curiculum web site.
 
How old is he? Someone mentioned Left to Tell (the first response in this thread). For an older teen and up, I think it would be great. But it is very intense. And knowing it’s a true story makes it all the more intense. Graphic machete murder scenes, etc. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to all adults. The young to middle teens would probably be better off waiting a little before they read it, though. I had dreams about that story for weeks after reading it, and I was 25 or 26 :o
 
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