Young Adult Nonfiction

Based on John Maxwell's best-selling title Developing the Leader Within You, Leading from the Lockers offers tweens the tools they need to develop as leaders before reaching high school or college. Leadership takes many forms, and today kids are assuming roles as leaders in school, on ...

Television. A little sister. An angry father. A favorite radio station. It's a noisy world. A lot of voices shout for teenagers' attention. Who do they listen to? And who do they tune out? In Live God Loud, Teen Mania's Ron Luce challenges teens to do a sound check. "I'd like you to tak...

You can't be friends with God if the God you believe in doesn't really exist.You can't depend on God if your God is a figment of your imagination.In a world full of gods, how do you know Jesus is real? You have probably heard things like: All religions lead to the same God. All faiths t...

When fifteen-year-old Jessica Ingram hears those words she knows she will never be the same. Suddenly her family-and her emotions-are in pieces. She feels as though her whole world is coming apart. Do you know any students like Jessica who are facing the separation or divorce of parents...

Fifteen-year-old Ken Myers is fed up. He says his parents never listen to him, that they are all the time criticizing him, and he feels like an outsider in his own home. And it's not much better with his "friend" Todd-they're not talking to each other anymore. What can he do to resolve ...

A star athlete at his high school, Bobby Franklin faces graduation with anything but certainty. Should he choose ministry over his beloved baseball? Should he earn a college degree-or skip school and try to make it in baseball-or marry his girlfriend, Ashley? As a Christian, he wonders ...

Fourteen-year-old Ann Cassidy has a secret, but she can't keep it any longer. The nightmares, the flashbacks, the false guilt-she has to tell someone. When Ann finally reveals the horror of her childhood sexual abuse, she feels some relief-but she has a new flood of emotions to deal wit...

Sixteen-year-old Kevin Colvin, burdened by his parent's fighting, the recent death of his best friend and slipping grades, despairs that he's just "a waste of space on this planet. Is this a passing thought or is he about to seriously contemplate suicide? Do you know any students like K...

Senior high students Luke and Traci feel something for each other like they have never felt before. And the more they're together, the deeper their feelings and desire for each other grows. Will these feelings last? Are they truly in love? How can they really know? Do you know any stude...