Hard as Nails: A Mission to Awaken Youth to the Power of God's LoveJustin FaticaImage/Doubleday, 2009, 208 pp., $14.00doubleday.comIn the fall of 2007, HBO screened a documentary called Hard as Nails abo...

Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the SoulStuart Brown, M.D., with Christopher VaughnPenguin Group, 2009, 229 pp., $24.95penguin.comThe widespread misperception that play i...

Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling WorldMary Elizabeth Moore, Almeda M. WrightChalice Press, 2008, 277 pp., $29.99chalicepress.comToday's children and youth face an extremely difficult lifestyle...

Make Poverty Personal: Taking the Poor as Seriously as the Bible DoesAsh BarkerBaker Books, 2009, 203 pp., $14.99bakerbooks.comMake Poverty Personal by Ash Barker is an absolutely critical read. This became r...

Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout EpidemicAnne JacksonZondervan, 2009, 190 pp., $16.99madchurchdisease.comIf you're not suffering from mad church disease, the burnout epidemic chasing many of today's...

Every fall, youth ministers are faced with the challenge of re-launching their ministries. After summer vacation, how do you rally teens and welcome a new wave of students? The temptation undoubtedly is to make...

Youth Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Youth MinistryHouston HeflinAbingdon Press, 2009, 160 pp., $15.00abingdonpress.comEvery youth worker eventually will encounter a vocational identity crisis by asking...

Mentor Like JesusRegi Campbell with Richard ChancyB&H Publishing Group, 2009, 161 pp., $16.99bhpublishinggroup.comThe idea of mentoring seems like a good one, but the specifics of how it actually works ar...

The Friends We KeepSarah Zacharias DavisWaterbrook, 2009, 210 pp., $12.99waterbrookpress.comIn the era of BFFs and BFNs (Best Friends Forever/Best Friends for Now), Sarah Zacharias Davis, VP for Ravi Zacharia...

Opposite Day: Upside-Down Questions to Keep Students Talking and ListeningBrooklyn LindseyZondervan, 2009, 176 pp., $10.99youthspecialties.comSelf-described model and festival beauty queen Brooklyn Lindsey pr...