Clean romance books for 12 yo DD

[Anonymous]

It’s unfortunately all she wants to read but I’ll take it over screens! Please recommend clean (crushing and first kisses only, not more) author with a whole slew of titles. She reads fast!

[Anonymous]

Kasie West might fit the bill. Her books are often defined as "clean romances."

The Betsy-Tacy high school books (start with Heaven to Betsy). They are full of romances, crushes, dances, but no kissing.

[Anonymous]

Robin McKinley's Beauty is a really lovely retelling of Beauty and the Beast

[Anonymous]

Does she like historical fiction? If so: the rest of the Anne series (post Anne of Green Gables) and Georgette Heyer are good. They have implied sex in the sense that sometimes the characters are or get married but there’s usually at most one on-screen kiss per books while still hitting a lot of romantic beats. Also Jane Austin for classics. Mary Stewart for clean romance set in the 50s-90s.

[Anonymous]

Betty Cavanna’s books were outdated when I was a teen (and that’s been quite a while), but I still loved them.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/betty-cavanna/375156/#AuthorBooks

[Anonymous]

Eleanor and Park

[Anonymous]

Here are some lists that might be helpful. I haven’t read most of these books, so you’d need to do additional research to make sure they meet your criteria, but maybe they can give you some ideas.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/love-stories-classic-romance-tales

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/181880.Middle_Grade_Romance#32332935

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/96690.Sweet_and_Clean_Romances

[Anonymous]

Look into the series by Jenny Han.

[Anonymous]

I vote for letting her read the smut. But that's just me .

[Anonymous]

At 12 I read Jane Eyre, THE romantic (yet highly moral) book. I was hooked. I couldn't put it down.

[Anonymous]

All the Tamora Pierce books. She wrote several series.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
At 12 I read Jane Eyre, THE romantic (yet highly moral) book. I was hooked. I couldn't put it down.

+1 for classics

[Anonymous]

Twilight series. It’s very innocent except for the one book where they get married.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Twilight series. It’s very innocent except for the one book where they get married.

There may not be a lot happening, but that doesn’t mean it’s innocent. The story is told from the heroine’s point of view, and she pushes for a sexual relationship. I think it would be better to wait until the child is older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Twilight series. It’s very innocent except for the one book where they get married.

I hate to be a stick in the mud but it really does glorify stalker-y, controlling behavior.

My vote is for Jenny Han books (to all the boys I’ve loved before) if she likes contemporary and Cassandra Clair’s series The Infernal Devices. There are a lot bit those are the ones that come to mind.