New Beginnings (Hardcover with CD)

New Beginnings(Hardcover with CD)Celia WhitlerAbingdon Press, 2009, 64 pp., $15.00abingdonpress.comNew Beginnings offers anything but what the title suggests. Rather, it enables a new graduate to be emotional...

Always Watching

Always WatchingBrandilyn and Amberly CollinsZondervan, 2009, 219 pp., $9.99zondervan.comIt is incredibly refreshing to read fiction for young women that does not have a vampire or a morose, moody, teenage gir...

Uglies: The Collector’s Set

Uglies: The Collector's SetScott WesterfeldSimon Pulse, 2009, 1,680 pp., $34.99simonandschuster.comTally Youngblood is an Ugly and can't wait to be turned Pretty. In Tally's world, your 16th birthday means yo...

Godly Girlz

Dear NancyNancy RueZonderkidz, 2008, 255 pp., $9.99zondervan.comLucy Doesn't Wear PinkNancy RueZonderkidz, 2008, 245 pp., $7.99zondervan.comSomehow the Faithgirlz series eluded me when my daughter was 8-12. T...

Breakthrough! The Bible Board Game

Breakthrough! The Bible Board GameSaint Mary's Press, 2009, $29.95smp.org My family and I had a blast playing Breakthrough!, a new Bible board game from Saint Mary's Press. If you're a Protestant, you may th...

Lost in Las Vegas

Lost in Las VegasMelody CarlsonZondervan, 2009, 206 pp., $9.99zondervan.comThis is the fifth book in a series about a group of teenage girls living in a boarding home called The Carter House. Between boyfrien...

The Last Mango in Texas

The Last Mango in TexasRay BlackstoneFaith Words, 2009, 247 pp., $13.99faithwords.comThink Carl Hiaasen retrained. The story of boy meets girl; girl wants to save the environment; boy inherits oil wells from ...

Profiles in Black: Phat Facts for Teens

Profiles in Black: Phat Facts for TeensMarvin A. McMickleJudson Press Publishers, 2008, 114 pp., $22.00judsonpress.comProfiles in Black seeks to make a connection between the hip-hop generation and its past. ...