Books aimed at Mid Teens
Ages 15 to 17
Style: Average
Attitude: Take Care → Positive
Mia and her boyfriend go too far in the fields one day and Mia finds that she is pregnant.
Abortion treated as matter of fact by everyone except the mother-to-be.
Moral Issue, Coping with
Style: Average
Attitude: Some Care Needed / Unobjectionable
Piers Medley, a young Sussex forester at the time of the Reformation, takes in a girl whom he rescues from vagabonds.
Personal religious difficulties in post-Reformation England, including the marrying of professed Religious. Goodhearted generosity in a difficult situation.
Historical, Thought-provoking, Romantic
Style: Good
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Jess is about to start a year abroad as part of her language degree.
Historical, Short
Style: Good
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Cat McPrie, daughter of a Travelling family, is trained by her father in the ways of poaching &c.
Growing-Up
Style: Weak
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Nick Miller (mid-teenage) is forced by his older brother's motorcycle gang - which he secretly wishes to join - to become friendly with Joseph Fisher, whose family run a small shop out on the fens.
Moral Issue, Gritty
Style: Good
Attitude: Positive
Three teenagers, a visting step-brother and sister and a local lad, find a dinner service decorated with a design which can be seen as owls or as flowers.
Magic, Spooky
Style: Good
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Three separate stories are told as happening in parallel around the same Cheshire locations.
Short
The Transformation of Jennifer Howard
Style: Average
Attitude: Take Care
18-year-old Jennifer Howard is devastated when her older brother dies of AIDS and after a failed suicide attempt, decides to stay for a while in a Shaker-like Christian Community nearby.
A positive view of a strict Christian community; some ambiguity in the feelings Jennifer has for Wayne; Charles Howard is seeing another woman with his wife's knowledge (but not consent)
Moral Issue, Growing-Up