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Chicken Soup for the Christian Teenage Soul : Stories of Faith Love Inspiration and Hope
This new volume in the blockbuster teen series puts faith first. For teens who make God an integral part of their lives, teens who are sorting through doubts about whether God really cares about them, and teens who don't know God at all, this may be one of the most influential books they'll ever read.
283 p. 2003
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Blackstock, Terri
Cape Refuge
Mystery and suspense combine in this first book of a four-book series set in Cape Refuge, Georgia. After a heated argument with his in-laws, Jonathan finds them murdered in the warehouse where they held their church services. Soon he becomes the prime suspect in the homicide.
385 p. 2002
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Carlson, Melody
Blade Silver : Color Me Scarred
Ruth copes with an abusive situation at home by cutting herself, until her high school counselor helps her get the treatment she needs to start a new life.
197 p. 2005
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Carlson, Melody
My Name is Chloe By Chloe Miller : a Novel
An intelligent but insecure fifteen-year-old aspiring musician who sports off-beat clothes, spiked hair, and multiple piercings, questions the existence of God until she meets Him head-on in a graveyard.
279 p. 2002
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Coman, Carolyn
Tell Me Everything
After her mother dies in a rescue mission on a snowy mountain, twelve-year-old Roz wonders if talking to God, and to the boy for whom her mother died, can help her understand what happened.
156 p. 2006
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Cooney, Caroline B.
A Friend at Midnight
Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned him. She has no idea the extent to which her faith in God will be tested. There is no choice for Lily. She will rescue Michael, but will she be able to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels?
183 p. 2006
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Dekker, Ted
Black
By the end of the day, three million people will be carriers of the deadliest virus in history. Only Thomas Hunter can stop it, and he has been killed. Twice. This is the first in a trilogy.
408 p. 2004
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Gormley, Beatrice
Salome
Relates the life of a beautiful descendant of Herod the Great, and events leading up to her Dance of the Seven Veils, after which her cruel mother coerces her to ask for the head of John the Baptist, an innocent man, on a silver platter.
274 p. 2007
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Grimes, Nikki
Dark Sons
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
216 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
 Coretta Scott King Award author honor
Coretta Scott King Award for Older Readers
Poetry for Teens
Urban Lit
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Gunn, Robin Jones
Until Tomorrow
After being on her own for almost a year, college student Christy Miller is surprised and delighted when her two closest friends, Todd and Katie, come to Switzerland to spend summer break traveling around Europe. The three have different expectations for the trip that threaten to make the time together much less pleasant than it could be.
286 p. 2000
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Henderson, Dee
The Negotiator
Kate O'Malley's job is to negotiate people out of doing crazy things, like blowing up buildings or killing hostages. In the midst of it all, she gets involved with Dave, who begins to show Kate her need for God.
312 p. 2001
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Kingsbury, Karen
Fame
As Dayne Matthews returns to Hollywood after his shocking discovery in Karen's best-selling novel Reunion, he faces the dangerous world of fame and paparazzi. Meanwhile, Katy Hart receives the offer of a lifetime starring opposite Dayne in a Hollywood film. Dayne and Jamie's choices will change their hearts and lives forever.
354 p. 2005
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Lewis, C. S.
The Screwtape Letters ; with Screwtape Proposes a Toast
"My dear Wormwood,..." So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into questions about good and evil, temptation, repentance, and grace, offering knowledge and guidance to all who are trying to live Christian lives.
209 p. 2001
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McCaughrean, Geraldine
Not the End of the World : a Novel
Everyone knows the story of the Flood: The man called on by God to build an ark. The animals that came on board two by two. The rain that fell for forty days and forty nights. But what about the rest of the story? What about Noah's wife and daughters-in-law? And what if there was a daughter as well? How would it feel to head into the unknown, with only each other and all those animals? What would it be like to turn away friends and neighbors struggling in the water? Could all of it really be part of God's Plan -- the hunger and pain and fear?
244 p. 2005
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Paul, Donita K.
Dragonspell
Once a slave girl, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service in this new fantasy that illustrates how God wants people to respond to His love.
339 p. 2004
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Peretti, Frank E.
Hangman's Curse
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.
281 p. 2001
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Rice, Anne
Christ the Lord : Out of Egypt : a Novel
A novel about the early years of Jesus Christ based on the Gospels and on New Testament scholarship.
321 p. 2005
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Historical Fiction - Biographical
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Rivers, Francine
A Voice in the Wind
In 70 A.D. a teenage Christian girl named Hadassah is taken to Rome as a slave to serve a wealth Valerian family. She wants to share her faith with her new family, but cannot find the courage to do so.
520 p. 2002
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Saint, Steve
End of the Spear : a True Story
Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe asks him to help them, Steve, his wife, and their teenage children move back to the jungle. There, Steve learns long-buried secrets about his father's murder, confronts difficult choices, and finds himself caught between two worlds.
338 p. 2005
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Wierenga Buchanan, Kathy
Croutons for Breakfast
Hannah and Jacie both undergo personal transformations as God reveals Himself to them in new ways on a Brio missions trip to Venezuela.
186 p. 2005
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