Central Kansas Library System

A daughter of missionaries from Papua New Guinea spends the summer in Los Angeles with her cousin and ends up in debt after getting caught up in the consumerism of wealthy surfer life.

When Ramona learns that her best friend since grade school is a lesbian, she struggles to decide how to respond, knowing that people of her community, and even her church, have trouble discussing homosexuality civilly.

Grace, the smallest of the angels, chooses to leave the glory of heaven to become the Christmas star that lights the Son's way to earth.

A Mexican-American high school senior deals with the separation and divorce of her parents and their effects on her relationship with them and with God.

The pain of her father's plane crash and the daring rescue mission behind her, Allison is ready to enjoy the rest of her freshman year in high school. She has new friends, she's developing her talent by writing for the school newspaper, and people are finally taking notice of her. One person she wish wouldn't take so much notice is Shirley Jensen, a sneaky classmate determined to see Allison's reputation ruined through a few devious tricks that nearly...

Sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson learns more about herself and her friends, and practices her new commitment to God, by writing a teen advice column for the newspaper on which her father is managing editor.

A child describes how good it feels to do nice things for others without them knowing.

Thrilled to back in Oregon and at long last living with her father, Allison O'Brian is looking forward to the excitement of starting high school. More than anything else, she wants to fit in, and she finds herself fighting a rising tide of jitters. What if the other students don't accept her? Will she have any friends? Will her good friend Andrew finally notice her now? Just as she begins to adjust to her surroundings, her father reveals the biggest...

In her first year at college, Caitlin's diary reflects on her homesickness, the challenges of rooming with a non-Christian, and evolving friendships, old and new.

Fourteen-year-old Allison finds herself the center of a custody battle between her glamorous, but neglectful, movie star mother and her long-absent artist father who wants her to live with him in a small Oregon town.