Clean Teen Action-Adventure-Fantasy with a Dash of Mystery

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  • Clean reads
  • Teen books
  • Action 
  • Adventure 
  • Fantasy 
  • Mystery 


Hero
By Mike Lupica
YA F Lupica
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.

Hunchback Assignments
By Author: Arthur G. Slade
YA F Slade Hunchbac #1
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

Dark Life
By Kat Falls
YA F Falls
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
YA F Fisher
Finn is imprisoned in Incarceron, but when he ambushes a party of Civicry, he comes into possession of a key that allows him to communicate with someone from the Outside and gives him hope of escape.

Airborn
By Kenneth Oppel
YA F Oppel Airborn #1
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

Teen Dystopia or Fantasy

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  • Dystopia
  • Fantasy
Under the Never Sky
By Veronica Rossi
YA F Rossi
Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together

Matched
By Ally Condie
YA F Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.

Graceling
By Kristin Cashore
YA F Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Entwined
By Heather Dixon
YA F Dixon
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.

Stardust
By Neil Gaiman
YA F Gaiman
Living in a Victorian countryside town overshadowed by an imposing stone barrier, Tristran is compelled to retrieve a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses to the wondrous other side of the barrier, where he encounters dangerous rivals for the star.