Christian/Inspirational Fiction
The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson In a story loosely based on Sleeping Beauty, 17-year-old Rose, a healer’s apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride. A Girl Named Mister by Nikki Grimes A pregnant teenager finds support and forgiveness from God through a book of poetry presented from the Virgin Mary’s perspective.
Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson Almost seventeen-year-old Alison, who has synesthesia, finds herself in a psychiatric facility accused of killing a classmate whose body cannot be found. The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle Amish teen Katie smuggles a gravely injured young man, an outsider, into her family's barn despite the elders' ruling that no one can come in or out of the community while some mysterious and massive unrest is wreaking havoc in the "English" world.
Stranger in the Chatroom by Todd Hafer A group of teens is contacted by a mysterious and increasingly malevolent character who claims to know their encounters with the Almighty, challenges their beliefs and endangers their lives. Arena by Karen Hancock Callie Hayes finds her life in peril after agreeing to participate in a psychological study, where the examiners cast her into an alien world called the Arena, with only a guidebook and a few supplies to help her return home.
Interrupted: A Life Beyond Words by Rachel Coker After the loss of her mother, Allie is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept.
There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B Jones When Finley travels to Ireland as a foreign exchange student, she hopes to create a new identity and get some answers from the God who took her brother away. But from the moment she boards the plane and sits by Beckett Rush, teen star of the hottest vampire flicks, nothing goes according to Finley's plan.
A Friend at Midnight by Caroline B. Cooney After recuing her younger brother abandoned at a busy airport by their divorced father, Lily finds her faith in God sorely tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels.
Less is More by Wendy Lawton Having gained weight after her father’s death, 16-year-old Abby goes on a reality television program and, with the help of her friends, family, and faith, works to meet her health and fitness goals.
The Miracle Girls by Anne Dayton Meet the Miracle Girls of Half Moon Bay! They may look ordinary, but each one is living out her second chance at life. Too bad it’s their last chance at surviving high school!
Boost by Kathryn Mackel Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.
CHRISTIAN FICTION AUTHORS Lisa T. Bergren – River of Time series
Stephen R. Lawhead – Dragon King trilogy
Kristin Billerbeck - Spa Girls Collection
Beverly Lewis – Summer Hill Secrets series
Chuck Black - Kingdom and Knights of Arrethtrae series
Krista McGee – Anomaly Trilogy
Melody Carlson - Carter Hours Girls, Diary of a Teenage Girl, True Colors, and other series.
Stephanie Perry Moore – Laurel Shadrach and Payton Skky series
Ted Dekker – Lost Books (Book of History Chronicles)
Stephanie Morrill – Reinvention of Skyler Hoyt series
Robin Jones Gunn – Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen series
Tim Shoemaker – Code of Silence series
Homer Hickam – Helium 3 series
Debbie Viguie – Sweet Seasons novels
Sarah Anne Sumpolec – Becoming Beka series
Jerry Jenkins – Left Behind: The Kids series Andrew Klavan – Homelanders series and Mindwar Trilogy
Teen Area – West Des Moines Public Library – 8/2015
Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson Almost seventeen-year-old Alison, who has synesthesia, finds herself in a psychiatric facility accused of killing a classmate whose body cannot be found. The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle Amish teen Katie smuggles a gravely injured young man, an outsider, into her family's barn despite the elders' ruling that no one can come in or out of the community while some mysterious and massive unrest is wreaking havoc in the "English" world.
Stranger in the Chatroom by Todd Hafer A group of teens is contacted by a mysterious and increasingly malevolent character who claims to know their encounters with the Almighty, challenges their beliefs and endangers their lives. Arena by Karen Hancock Callie Hayes finds her life in peril after agreeing to participate in a psychological study, where the examiners cast her into an alien world called the Arena, with only a guidebook and a few supplies to help her return home.
Interrupted: A Life Beyond Words by Rachel Coker After the loss of her mother, Allie is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept.
There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B Jones When Finley travels to Ireland as a foreign exchange student, she hopes to create a new identity and get some answers from the God who took her brother away. But from the moment she boards the plane and sits by Beckett Rush, teen star of the hottest vampire flicks, nothing goes according to Finley's plan.
A Friend at Midnight by Caroline B. Cooney After recuing her younger brother abandoned at a busy airport by their divorced father, Lily finds her faith in God sorely tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels.
Less is More by Wendy Lawton Having gained weight after her father’s death, 16-year-old Abby goes on a reality television program and, with the help of her friends, family, and faith, works to meet her health and fitness goals.
The Miracle Girls by Anne Dayton Meet the Miracle Girls of Half Moon Bay! They may look ordinary, but each one is living out her second chance at life. Too bad it’s their last chance at surviving high school!
Boost by Kathryn Mackel Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.
CHRISTIAN FICTION AUTHORS Lisa T. Bergren – River of Time series
Stephen R. Lawhead – Dragon King trilogy
Kristin Billerbeck - Spa Girls Collection
Beverly Lewis – Summer Hill Secrets series
Chuck Black - Kingdom and Knights of Arrethtrae series
Krista McGee – Anomaly Trilogy
Melody Carlson - Carter Hours Girls, Diary of a Teenage Girl, True Colors, and other series.
Stephanie Perry Moore – Laurel Shadrach and Payton Skky series
Ted Dekker – Lost Books (Book of History Chronicles)
Stephanie Morrill – Reinvention of Skyler Hoyt series
Robin Jones Gunn – Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen series
Tim Shoemaker – Code of Silence series
Homer Hickam – Helium 3 series
Debbie Viguie – Sweet Seasons novels
Sarah Anne Sumpolec – Becoming Beka series
Jerry Jenkins – Left Behind: The Kids series Andrew Klavan – Homelanders series and Mindwar Trilogy
Teen Area – West Des Moines Public Library – 8/2015
