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Alcorn, Randy C. - Deadline
Andrews, Gini - Esther
Anna Karenina
Arvin, Reed - The Wind in the Wheat
Bacher, June Masters - Heartland Heritage series,
Bacher, June Masters --Journey to Love series,
Bacher, June Masters --Love is a Gentle Stranger series,
Bacher, June Masters --Love's Soft Whisper series
Baer, Judy - Live from Brentwood High,
Baer, Judy --Cedar River Daydreams series (ages 14 - 17)
Balizet, Carol - Plague
Bell, J. Scott
Bell, Katherine - Jonathan's Journey
Bell, Martin - Wolf
Bergren, Lisa Tawn - Treasure
Borntrager, Mary Christner
Bunn, T. Davis
Burkett, Larry - The Illuminati, The Thor Conspiracy
Burkett, Larry (suspense/thriller).
Carlson, Melody - Diary series and Colours series - very popular with teenage girls.
Cash, Johnny - The Man in White
Clearwater Crossing
Dolan, David - Code of Honor
Duncan, The Brothers K
Edwards, Gene - The Birth
Feldhake, Susan G. - The Enduring Faith series
Fischer, John - The Saints' and Angels' Song
Focus on the Family series
Funderbunk, Robert - The Innocent Years series
Gilge, Jeannette - Never Miss a Sunset Pioneer Family series
Girzone, Joseph. Joshua series
Glover, Ruth - Wild Rose Trilogy
Gramm, Kent - Claire
Greene, Power and the Glory
Gulliver's Travels
Gunn, Robin Jones - Secrets,
Gunn, Robin Jones --Sierra Jensen series,
Gunn, Robin Jones --the Christie Miller series
Hamilton, Jane - The Book of Ruth
Hand, Bill - The One Prince
Heatherly, Joyce Landorf - He Began With Eve
Heitzmann, Kristen. Rocky Mountain Legacy series (1- Honor's Pledge) about a woman and her husband who go out west to start a farm. I have read all three series and enjoy them. The girls in my school also read them if they are directed to them.
Heynen, Jim. Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice. It's about a city kid named Cosmos who has gotten into some minor trouble and the judge okays a change of scenery for him. He is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on a farm in Iowa, who are very religious. He attends the Christian high school there and is feeling a bit of a culture shock. When a rash of burglaries occur, he is the first suspect...but his aunt and uncle, and a girl he meets there, never waiver from their love and support. He attempts to solve the crime himself to be vindicated.
Hickman, Patricia - Land of the Far Horizons series
Hill, Grace Livingston (romance)
Hoff, B. J. - The Emerald Ballad series
Huggins, James Byron - Leviathan, The Reckoning
Hunt, Angela Elwell - The Theyn Chronicles
Jane Eyre
Jenkins & LaHaye. Left Behind: The kids series
Johnson, Lois Walfrid
Johnson, Margaret - After the Storm
Karon, Jan - At Home in Mitford
Karon, Jan. The Mitford Series
Katz, Fred. Katz writes a series called Spine Chillers, a Christian alternative
to Goosebumps.
Kelly, Clint - The Landing Place,
Kelly, Clint ---The Lost Kingdom
Killinger, John - Jesse
L'Engle, Madeleine teen-type titles, I'd call them "Christian Fiction". They often consider issues of faith in a Christian context, and they're well received.
LaHaye, Tim. For older teens (9th+) you might consider the adult Left Behind series.
Lawhead, Stephen - The Dragon King trilogy (ages 14+)
Les Miserables
Lewis, Beverly Heritage of Lancaster County series (The Shunning, The Confession, and The Reckoning). It has the old order Amish culture as a background and contains the kinds of plot elements that young people are sure to enjoy (young protagonist who feels different than her surroundings, but can't tell why, romance, young love lost, a quest for identity, resistance to the status quo, etc., etc.). I really enjoyed the series, and one learns a great deal about the Amish into the bargain.
Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of narnia
Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet
Locke, Thomas - The Omega Network
Lucado, Max (mostly non-fic, but some fiction)
MacDonald, George. who was C.S. Lewis's mentor. There are titles with names like The Baron's Aprenticeship, The Fisherman's Lady... probably a dozen of those, which have been republished in modern language without the Scottish dialect edited by Michael Phillips. I loved the ones I read. There are also the Curdie books for a slightly younger audience... delightful. And one called At the Back of the North Wind which I discovered when a teacher had me hunt it down because it had been her adult daughter's favorite book as a child. Macdonald also has some fantasies... one is called Phantastes I think. You can't go wrong with his work.
MacDonald, Shari - Forget Me Not
Marshall, Catherine Christy
Massie, Bob - Mortal Intent
Maynard, Roy - .38 Caliber
McCasland, Dave - Pinstripe Parables
McGuire, Barry - In the Midst of Wolves
Meier, Paul - The Third Millennium
Meyers, Bill. the Wally McDoogle series.
Morris, Gilbert
Morris, Lynn. Cheney Duvall series.
Murray, Katherine - Jake
Myers, Bill - Forbidden Doors series) (ages 13+),(an alternative to the Goosebumps, Stine & Pike books)
Myers, Bill. Forbidden doors series
Oke, Janet. writes good historical Christian fiction.
Page, Carole Gift - Mist over Morro Bay,
Page, Carole Gift ---The House on Honeysuckle Lane
Parker, Gary - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Peart, Jane - The Brides of Montclair Series,
Peart, Jane --Orphan Train Series,
Peart, Jane --Westward Dreams series
Peiffer, Lila - The Secrets of the Roses,
Peiffer, Lila ---Rosehaven
Percy, Second Coming
Peretti, Frank is another well-known Christian author who writes adult novels suitable for older/mature teens. He also has written books for younger teens and children
Peretti, Frank - This Present Darkness,
Peretti, Frank ---Piercing the Darkness
Quayle, Marilyn - The Campaign
Rao, Linda Rae - Eagle Wing series
Rivers, Francine. (Last Sin Eater)
Rushford, Patricia H. - the Jennie McGrady series
Schaap, James Calvin - In the Silence There are Ghosts
Shands, Linda - Seasons Remembered series
Shaw, Lou - Honor Thy Son
Snelling, Golden Filly series
Snelling, Lauraine - An Untamed Land,
Snelling, Lauraine ---The Golden Filly series (ages 12 -15)
Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
SpringSong books (titles are all female names)
Stahl, Hilda
Stallsmith, Audrey - The Body They May Kill
The Brothers Karamazov
Thoene, Bodie. the Zion Chronicles and Zion Legacy series
Traylor, Ellen Gunderson (historical fiction/biography)
Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn
Wick, Lori, ... they are nice, clean "romance" stories that don't get too preachy, but whose characters are Christian.
Willis, Paul - No Clock in the Forest
Wise, Robert - All That Remains,
Wise, Robert ---People of the Covenant series
Wise, Robert ---The Scrolls of Edessa
