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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Last Days of California: A Novel
Mary Miller · 233 pages
Fourteen-year-old Jess' beliefs falter when her evangelical father packs up the family, including her secretly pregnant older sister and her long-suffering mother, to travel across the country and save souls ahead of the anticipated end of the world.
Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult · 416 pages
From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantia
Saint Training
Elizabeth Fixmer · 240 pages
The Opposite of Hallelujah
Anna Jarzab · 452 pages
For eight of her sixteen years Carolina Mitchell's older sister Hannah has been a nun in a convent, almost completely out of touch with her family--so when she suddenly abandons her vocation and comes home, nobody knows quite how to handle the situation, or guesses what explosive secrets she is hiding.
Killing God
Kevin Brooks · 232 pages
Dawn's father left two years ago after finding God, and Dawn blames God for the man her father became before he left. She and her mum are coping alone, but then two cool girls from school take an interest in Dawn and the events surrounding her father's disappearance are stirred up. First person recount. Suggested level: secondary.
A Psalm for Lost Girls
Katie Bayerl · 368 pages
"Determined to protect her sister Tess's memory, Callie da Costa sets out to prove Tess wasn't really a saint and finds herself pulled into a kidnapping investigation"--
Definitions of Indefinable Things
Whitney Taylor · 336 pages
"Follows three teens in a small town whose lives intersect in ways they never expected, teaching them that there are no one-size-fits-all definitions of depression, friendship, and love"--
Pure
Terra Elan McVoy
Fifteen-year-old Tabitha and her four best friends all wear purity rings to symbolize their pledge to remain virgins until they marry, but when one admits that she has broken the pledge each girl must reexamine her faith, friendships, and what it means to be pure.
For Keeps
Natasha Friend
Josie's never met her dad, and that's fine with her. To Josie, Paul Tucci is just a guy who got her mom pregnant and then moved away. It all happened sixteen years ago, when Josie's mom was still a teenager herself. But now Paul Tucci is back in town, and Josie has to deal with not one but two men in her life-her father and her first boyfriend, who Josie fears will hurt her just like Paul hurt her
Someone Like You
Sarah Dessen · 288 pages
Halley has always followed in the wake of her best friend, Scarlett. But when Scarlett learns that her boyfriend has been killed in a motorcycle accident, and that she's carrying his baby, she's devastated. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Though their friendship may be tested by the strain, like a true friendship, it will endure.
The Outcast: a modern retelling of The Scarlet Letter
Jolina Petersheim · 424 pages
Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content in her Old Order Mennonite community until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel is shunned by those she loves most and is eventually coerced into leaving by her brother-in-law, the bishop. Secrets run deep in this cloistered community, but when the life of Rachel
Burned
Ellen Hopkins · 544 pages
NY Times bestseller, is the story of a young woman, struggling to find her place in the world in the face of abuse by the person she most adores: her father. She questions her family, her faith, and her ability to love and be loved. Suspended from school, she is sent to rural Nevada to live with an aunt whom she barely knows. There she finds love, acceptance and new knowledge about the things t
Conviction
Kelly Loy Gilbert · 355 pages
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"-- Braden questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder. The plot contains pervasive profanity, violence, and drug use.
Ask Me How I Got Here
Christine Heppermann · 225 pages
Addie has always known what she was running toward. In cross country, in life, in love. Until she and her boyfriend her sensitive, good-guy boyfriend are careless one night and she ends up pregnant. Addie makes the difficult choice to have an abortion. And after that even though she knows it was the right decision for her nothing is the same anymore. She doesn t want anyone besides her parents and
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Stephanie Oakes · 406 pages
The Kevinian Cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something about what happened that night. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she relives the events that led to
Anything But Normal
Melody Carlson · 254 pages
Honor student and future journalist Sophie, a seventeen-year-old senior, was pressured to break her purity pledge and fears she is pregnant, but is unable to go to her parents, friends, pastor, or even God for help.
Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
Lucas Klauss · 340 pages
A fifteen-year-old high school student becomes involved with an evangelical Christian girl in spite of his father's adamant atheism and his own confusion about life.
The Girl Who Slept with God
Val Brelinski · 368 pages
Purity
Jackson Pearce
Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."
His Love Endures Forever
Beth Wiseman · 326 pages
Danielle is anything but Amish. Just her luck to fall in love with an Amish guy. Now she's 18, pregnant, and hopeful that Matthew will do the right thing and marry her. When Matthew walks away from her and their unborn child, she has nowhere to turn. Her unlikely friendship with Levi offers some comfort-- yet they have so little in common. Does God have plans beyond what her mind can imagine, that
A Complicated Kindness
Miriam Toews · 256 pages
"A 16-year-old rebels against the conventions of her strict Mennonite community and tries to come to terms with the collapse of her family ..."--Publishers Weekly.
Skunk Girl
Sheba Karim · 231 pages
Nina Khan is not just the only Asian or Muslim student in her small-town high school in upstate New York, she is also faces the legacy of her "Supernerd" older sister, body hair, and the pain of having a crush when her parents forbid her to date.