Fun Fiction with Clean Language and Little Violence

Try these books if you're looking for:

• cleaner language
• little violence
• like authors Agatha Christie, Jessica Day George, & Jane Austen

Maisie Dobbs 
By Jacqueline Winspear
MYSTERY WINSPEAR Maisie #1
Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations.

The Corinthian 
By Georgette Heyer
ROMANCE HEYER
When a man comes across a beautiful young woman climbing out of a window in a bid to escape, he finds the ideal opportunity to realize his own escape in this sparkling Regency romance with a decidedly Shakespearean twist.

The Star of Kazan 
By Eva Ibbotson
YA IBBOTSON
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

Fantasy with Little Violence

Try these books if you're looking for:

• fantasy
• world building
• little/no violence

Insignia
By S.J. Kincaid
YA F KINCAID
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

Mistborn
By Brandon Sanderson
SCI FI SANDERSO Mistborn #1
Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn, and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world. This fantasy builds an exciting new world.

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. The book has strong characters in a fantasy world.