Abandoned by Patricia H. Rushford.  Annie Phillips disappears after an article in the school newspaper announces that she was abandoned in a trash bin at birth, and Jennie suspects television reporter Debra Noble knows something of Annie's past.  YA Rushford

Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher.  Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem.  YA Fletcher

Angel of Mercy by Lurlene McDaniel.  Eighteen-year-old Heather travels as a volunteer to Africa, where she provides direly needed medical help in Kenya and Uganda and hopes to act as God's hands on Earth.  YA McDaniel

Bad Girl Days by Lissa Halls Johnson.  Still shaken by a friend’s death and distrusting God, Jacie desperately attempts to fill the void in her life and cope with the looming changes that high school graduation promises, while her friends try to help her regain her faith.  Part of the Brio Girls series.  YA Brio

The Celebrity by Robert Elmer.  A family tragedy prompts celbrityJamie D. Lane to assume a new identity and head to the Pacific Northwest incognito, where he meets Anne Stewart, a teacher and former track star grappling with the bitterness and devastating effects of a head injury.  Fic Elmer

Chosen:  a Lost Book by Ted Dekker.  As the land of the Forest Dwellers is increasingly destroyed by the Horde, Thomas Hunter, commander of the Forest Guard, chooses four sixteen-year-old recruits for a special mission--to find the lost Books of History that have power over the past, present, and future.  YA Dekker

Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice by Jim Heynen.  When sent to live on a farm in Iowa as an alternative to juvenile detention, seventeen-year-old Cosmos falls in love with a religious girl and reconsiders his values and beliefs.  YA Heynen

Crazy in Love by Dandi Daley Mackall.  When Mary Jane starts dating the hottest guy in school, she finds herself tempted to break the abstinence promise she made with her friends years ago.  A novel of friendships and first loves.  YA Mackall

Dark Blue:  Color Me Lost by Melody Carlson.  Two sophomore girls, best friends since kindergarten, grow apart when one wants new friends and decides the other is a popularity liability.  First in the True Colors series.  YA Carlson

The Dark Light by Mette Newth.  While enduring a bleak existence in a hospital for lepers in Norway during the early 1800s, thirteen-year-old Tora finds meaning in a life surrounded by death and suffering.  YA Newth

Don’t Count on Homecoming Queen by Nancy N. Rue.  A group of teens form a prayer group to deal with the stressful issues they must face in the coming school year.  YA Rue

Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul.  Kale discovers a dragon egg in her village, and embarks on a quest to bring it to the royal city.  Followed by Dragonquest, Dragonknight and Dragonfire.  SF Paul

Dwelling Places by Vinita Hampton Wright.  Members of the Barnes family of Beulah, Iowa, struggle to cope with the loss of their farm and their faith as they individually search for their places within the family.  Fic Wright

Emily Ever After by Anne Dayton and Mary Vanderbilt.  Seeking an escape from life in her small California town, Emily is delighted when she is offered a job in New York City, where she finds herself torn between the glamour and glitter of New York and her determination to remain true to her morals.  Also check out The Book of Jane by the same authors.  Fic Dayton

Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande.  Mena starts the new school year ostracized after landing her church in a lawsuit, but when a new teacher begins teaching evolution, things really get complicated.  This novel seeks a balance between the extremes of science and faith.  YA Brande

Flabbergasted by Ray Blackston.  Newly single and recently transferred to South Carolina, stockbroker Jay Jarvis joins the singles group at a local church, through which he meets a host of eccentric fellow singles during a weekend beach retreat.  Followed by A Delirious Summer.  Fic Blackston

A Friend at Midnight by Caroline B. Cooney.  After rescuing her younger brother (abandoned at a busy airport by their divorced father), fifteen-year-old Lily finds her faith in God sorely tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels.  YA Cooney

Grace at Low Tide by Beth Webb Hart.  DeVeaux chronicles her family’s move from the Charleston suburbs to a run-down home on a small island.  Her father’s change in fortune, her mother’s change in attitude, and faith all play a role in DeVeaux’s journey.  Fic/LT Hart

Hadassah:  The Girl Who Became Queen Esther by Tommy Tenney.  Teen-aged Hadassah, a reluctant candidate for Queen of Persia, feels sorrow at leaving her family but she is eager to have a chance to protect her people from persecution.  YA Tenney

Hangman’s Curse by Frank E. Peretti.  When several students at Baker High School are stricken by an alleged curse of the school's ghost, Elijah and Elisha Springfield and their parents, undercover investigators, are sent to uncover the truth behind the events.  First in the Veritas Project series.  YA Peretti

Josiah by Stephen Arterburn.  Thirteen-year-old Josiah accepts a spot in the nation's hottest young band in spite of his scoliosis which, if discovered, could result in his dismissal.  YA Arterburn

Just One Wish by Janette Rallison. Seventeen-year-old Annika tries to cheer up her little brother Jeremy before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor by bringing home his favorite television actor, Steve Raleigh, the star of "Teen Robin Hood."  YA Rallison

Mixed Bags by Melody Carlson.  DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who has restored an old mansion and turned it into a boarding house for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy identity or changing her style, as she decides whether or not to try to fit in.  YA Carlson

My Name is Chloe by Melody Carlson.  Intelligent and insecure musician Chloe doubts the existence of God, until she meets him head on—in a graveyard.  First in the Diary of a Teenage Girl series.  YA Carlson

Nothing but Drama by ReShonda Tate Billingsley.  Four teenage girls from different backgrounds find faith and friendship after joining Good Girlz, an afterschool church youth group.  First in a series.  YA Billingsley

Nothing Pink by Mark Hardy.  Vincent Harris, the teen son of a Baptist minister, has always known he is gay, and uses his faith to avoid any sinful thoughts or acts, but when his family moves to a new church in the late 1970s he meets Robert, falls in love, and begins to wonder if God is really asking him to repent and change.  YA Hardy

Ordinary Miracles by Stephanie Tolan.  Mark tries to spend more time away from his twin brother and meets a scientist who challenges some of Mark's long-held beliefs about heaven, God, prayer, and death.  YA Tolan

Purity Reigns by Stephanie Perry Moore.  Laurel is the daughter of a preacher, the oldest and only sister of three brothers. During her senior year of high school, she deals with the struggles of being a teenager, and comes to realize the importance of God in her life.  First in the Laurel Shadrach series.  YA Moore

Red Velvet by Sandra Byrd.  Quinn travels to Seattle for two months while her mom undergoes treatment for cancer. When Quinn finds her mother's teen-years diary, she discovers a list of things her mom always wanted to do before she dies, and Quinn determines to see that her mom accomplishes everything on the list. Only one worry--if she helps her mother complete the list is she actually giving her permission to die?  YA Byrd

Risk ‘n Roses by Jan Slepian.  In 1948, Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who seems to run the neighborhood.  But friendship may mean compromising her morals.  YA Slepian

Simply Divine by Jacquelin Thomas.  After a family catastrophe, glamorous Hollywood teenager Divine goes to live with devout relatives in Georgia, where she learns the importance of family and finds strength by turning to God.  YA Thomas

The Staircase by Ann Rinaldi.  In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student, and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.  YA Rinaldi

Staying Pure by Stephanie Perry Moore.  When Payton Skky, a high school senior, begins to date popular Dakari Graham, everything seems perfect until Dakari begins to pressure Payton into taking their relationship to the next level.  First in the Payton Skky series.  YA Moore

T4:  A Novel in Verse by Ann Clare Lezotte.  When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world as she knows it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4.  YA Lezotte

Uncommon Faith by Trudy Krisher.  In 1837, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Faith.  YA Krisher

The Vanishings by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.  After the Rapture, Judd Thompson, Vicki Byrne, Lionel Washington, and Ryan Daley find their way to the New Hope Community Church, where they meet Bruce Barnes, who enlightens them as to the significance of the event.  First in the series Left Behind:  The Kids.  YA Jenkins

Wild Fire by Linda Shands.  A year after her mother's death in a fire, fifteen-year-old Wakara still struggles with grief, while she and her family, who claim some Yani Indian ancestry, try to continue with life at their remote mountain lodge in the Oregon wilderness.  Followed by Blind Fury.  YA Shands

Updated 07/2009

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