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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
2) Summer
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Sunrise volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Dayne Matthews finds the perfect solution to his on-camera love scenes--his wife, Katy, will star in his next film--but in an effort to appease the press, the couple agrees to a twelve-episode reality show, which creates trouble for the newlyweds.
3) Eden west
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
During an eventful year for the Christian cult where he has grown up, seventeen-year-old Jacob finds his faith and devotion tested when he meets new friends from the outside world and encounters temptations that threaten his contentment.
4) The chance
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them.
5) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn't know how to reach beyond their differences and connect to a closed-off...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A triumph. This novel's haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget."
-Richmond Times Dispatch
"Extraordinary."
-Orlando Sentinel
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care) comes Keeping Faith: an "addictively readable" (Entertainment Weekly) novel that "makes you wonder about God. And that is a rare moment,...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The impossible true story about the powerful impact of prayer that inspired the major motion picture starring Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Dennis Haysbert, and Josh Lucas.
Through the years and the struggles, when life seemed more about hurt and loss than hope and mercy, God was positioning the Smiths for something extraordinary--the death and resurrection of their son. When Joyce Smith's fourteen-year-old son John fell through an icy Missouri lake...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her perfectly planned summer of quality time with her parents, her serious boyfriend, and her Bible camp unravels and long-hidden family secrets emerge, Lucy must figure out what she is made of and what grace really means.
12) Sister wife
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a remote polygamist community, Celeste struggles to accept her destiny while longing to be free to live her life her way.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In small-town Pennsylvania, nineteen-year-old Andi Grant will do anything to protect her six-year-old brother Daniel from those who believe he has a God-given gift as a healer--including their own mother.
14) After the fire
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically." --
Before, she lived inside the fence. She was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything-- and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
16) Bad girl days
Author
Series
Brio girls volume 12
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Still shaken by Dinah's death and distrusting God, Jacie desperately attempts to fill the void in her life and cope with the looming changes that high school graduation promises, while her friends try to help her regain her faith.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to...
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