• Selected Titles
• Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  A simple shepherd goes on a journey and discovers that life's gifts lie within us all.
  
• Blind Faith - Ellen Wittlinger
  After Liz's grandma Bunny dies, Liz's mother fall into a deep depression. The only thing that cheers her is going to a special spiritualist church where she thinks she can communicate with Bunny from the grave.
  
• Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined - Linda Crew
  In 1903, a fiery, charismatic preacher arrives in a sleepy town in Oregon and lives are changed forever.
  
• Clay - David Almond
  One day, as Davie looks on, Stephen brings a tiny clay figure to life. Later, Davie helps Stephen to bring a giant clay man to life. What has Davie helped unleash on the world?
  
• Dark Heart - Betsy James
  Seventeen-year-old Kat's struggle to learn the ways of her dead mother's people in the hill country is complicated by her failure in the bear ceremony, a spiritual rite of passage, and her attraction to the blind outcast Raim. Fantasy sequel to Long Night Dance.
  
• Dark Sons - Nikki Grimes
  Alternating poems compare and contrast the feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City. They struggle with their faith in God when they are abandoned by their fathers and they feel conflicted by the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
  
• Death: The High Cost of Living - Neil Gaiman
  One day, every hundred years, Death walks among humans. Death, the younger sister of Gaiman's Sandman, is portrayed as a teenaged punk rocker.
  
• Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature - Robin Brande
  Your best friend hates you. The guy you liked hates you. Your entire group of friends hates you. All because you did the right thing. Welcome to life for Mena, whose year is starting off in the worst way possible. She's been kicked out of her church group and no one will talk to her--not even her own parents.
  
• Faith Wish - James Bennett
  Upset with the course her life has taken, pretty and popular senior Anne-Marie is drawn to the leader of a cult-like Christian group, becomes pregnant, and runs away to figure out what the Lord wants her to do with her life.
  
• Fire in the Heart: A Spiritual Guide for Teens - Deepak Chopra
  A mysterious teacher uses parables to lead a fifteen-year-old boy through a four-day retreat of self-discovery.
  
• Garden - Elsie Aidinoff
  The serpent teaches Eve everything she needs to know in this retelling of the tale of the Garden of Eden.
  
• Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life - Lauren Winner
  A young woman raised in the Orthodox Jewish faith turns to Christianity and documents her year of spiritual seeking.
  
• Godless - Pete Hautman
  Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god - the town's water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers, and as their religion grows, it takes on a life of its own. Jason struggles to keep the faith pure, but when the Chutengodians hold their first ceremony high atop the dome of the water tower, things quickly go from merely dangerous to terrifying and deadly.
  
• I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion - Marilyn Singer, editor
  An anthology of stories for teenagers exploring the topics of religion, belief, and spirituality by award-winning authors, including M.E. Kerr, Kyoko Mori, and Virginia Euwer Wolff.
  
• I Believe In... Christian, Jewish and Muslim Young People Speak About Their Faith - Pearl Gaskins
  American teenagers offer varied perspectives on topics such as peer pressure, dating, gender roles, worship, mourning, and society. These are unique accounts of the struggles and joys of belonging to a certain faith.
  
• Leaving Fishers - Margaret Peterson Haddix
  After joining her new friends in the religious group called Fishers of Men, Dorry finds herself immersed in a cult from which she must struggle to extricate herself.
  
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel*
  Pi Patel is an intelligent, unusual young boy with a scientific turn of mind and who is also a practising Hindu, Moslem, and Christian. He is drawn closer to God while trapped on a lifeboat with several wild animals, including a Bengal tiger.
  
• Salmon Doubts - Adam Sacks
  Fish converse and philosophize about the meaning of life as they make their ultimate journey upstream to spawn.
  
• Shell House - Linda Newbery
  Seventeen-year-old Greg's interest in photography draws him to a ruined mansion whose history becomes more personally relevant as he slowly discovers the tragic events that led to the destruction of the house during World War I. Friendships are important in this story; Greg's friend Faith, a devout Christian, challenges his doubts about religion.
  
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
  Siddhartha is a privileged brahmin's son. Handsome, well-loved, and growing increasingly dissatisfied with the life expected of him, he sets out on his journey, not realizing that he is fulfilling the prophecies proclaimed at his birth.
  
• Skellig - David Almond
  When his family moves into a new house, Michael discovers a strange creature in the garage. Is Skellig an angel?
  
• Soul Searching: Thirteen Stories about Faith and Belief - Lisa Rowe Fraustino, editor
  Thirteen stirring narratives by acclaimed authors illuminate the world's major religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism - as well as a few lesser-known belief systems.
  
• When We Were Saints - Han Nolan
  Inspired by his grandfather's last words and guided by a girl who believes they are saints, fourteen-year-old Archie sets out on a spiritual quest that takes him from southern Appalachia to the Cloisters Museum in New York City.
  

*denotes Canadian author; January 2006