By "clean", do you mean no sex at all, or no
explicit sex?
Sarah Rees Brennan's "In Other Lands" is one of my favourite books, a portal fantasy where Elliot from our world travels to the Borderlands when he's thirteen, and we follow him for five years. It's both hilarious and heartbreaking.
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“When he said all that stuff about duty and protection . . .,” he said. “Is this a military operation?”
Surfer Dude looked pleased to be asked. “Yes. They train you up, those who can pass through the Border on either side, to be guards and keep the peace between the peoples in this land and those who may come through from the other. You learn how to handle all sorts of weapons, how to form a unit, all this cool stuff.”
“Oh my God,” Elliot said in a hollow voice. “We’re child soldiers?”
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There is some sex later in the book, but it's not explicit. Here's a typical example:
Quote:
There was no door to speak of, since they were all in tents. Through the rough cloth of the tent, Elliot could hear the murmur of people passing by, the crackle of fires and sound of blades being sharpened and all the other sounds of a battlefield settling back into peace. War was over, at least for a time, and he was warm, his head on a soft pillow, tangled up in soft blankets with [spoiler removed] tangled up with him. She hovered above him, murmuring words that only meant, to him, that she did want him after all.
Elliot could not help but smile, and he felt her smile blossom against his mouth in response to his. He curled his fingers around her long [...] hair and tugged her down the last fraction of an inch toward him.
“Besmirch away,” he said.
He didn’t know whether he had Peter’s educational manuals or [...]'s helpful instructions to thank, but Elliot thought the whole thing had all gone rather well.
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