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Christian Fiction for ages 12+
Not all books on this list are suitable for all readers, parental guidance should be used.

 

A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sourcAugust 4, 2007her's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are listed alphabetically by author.

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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Fiction

• Delirious Summer
  Author: Blackston, Ray
  Publisher: Revell $ 12.99 (paper) ISBN: 0800759583 Date: 2004
  Booklist
  To Neil Rucker, seven months, one week, and a day is too long to wait in between dates. But life as a Spanish language teacher to missionaries in Ecuador affords little opportunity for romance. When his worst student, Jay Jarvis, suggests a respite in Greenville, South Carolina, so begins Neil's delirious summer.
  Suggested Reading: Christian Fiction Stars
  Updated 6.10.04
• The Celebrity
  Author: Elmer, Robert
  Publisher: Waterbrook $ 12.99 ISBN: 1578567416 Date: 2005
  Booklist
  Caught between a charade and the Truth, singer Jamie D. Lane assumes a new identity, secretly slips away from his celebrity lifestyle, and heads to the Pacific Northwest incognito. But what he finds in small-town Washington could open up Jamie's future and change him forever.
  Suggested Reading: Christian Fiction Stars
  Updated 5.26.05
• Grace at Low Tide
  Author: Hart, Beth Webb
  Publisher: Westbow $ 13.99 (paper) ISBN: 1595540261 Date: 2005
  Booklist
  When a business venture goes sour, Charleston blue-bloods Billy and Dee DeLoach uproot their family and move into the caretaker's cottage on what was once the family plantation estate on Edisto Island. Their wry, teenage son chronicles the adjustments, tensions, and tragedy.
  Suggested Reading: Christian Fiction Stars
  Updated 10.11.05
• Christ the Lord
  Author: Rice, Anne
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 0375412018 Date: 2005
  KirkusLJ
  Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of Christ the Lord based on the gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.
  Updated 9.26.05
• Dwelling Places
  Author: Wright, Vinita Hampton
  Publisher: Harper San Francisco $ 23.95 ISBN: 0060790806 Date: 2006
  PWBooklist
  Set in the unforgiving Iowa plains, Dwelling Places is a poignant and stunning novel about the fragile threads of healing, faith, and family life.
  Updated 1.21.06