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Books aimed at Mid Teens

Ages 15 to 17

Blue Moon

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

A Cold Wind Blowing

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

Granny was a Buffer Girl

Style:  Good

Attitude:  Unobjectionable

Jess is about to start a year abroad as part of her language degree.

Historical, Short

I'll Go My Own Way

Style:  Good

Attitude:  Unobjectionable

Cat McPrie, daughter of a Travelling family, is trained by her father in the ways of poaching &c.

Growing-Up

A Map of Nowhere

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

The Owl Service

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

Red Shift

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