Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Does My Head Look Big in This?
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia,
would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides
to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without
losing her identity or sense of style.
Barkley, Brad. Scrambled Eggs at Midnight.
Calliope and Eliot, two fifteen-year-olds in Asheville, North Carolina, begin
to acknowledge some unpleasant truths about their parents and form their
own ideas about love.
Hautman, Pete. Godless.
When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion
to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take
on a power of its own.
Heiligman, Deborah. Charles and Emma.
Provides an account of Charles Darwin's life and evolutionary theory, examining
how his personal life affected his work and vice versa because of his wife's
strong religious beliefs.
Hellenga, Robert. Snakewoman of Little Egypt.
A middle-aged anthropology professor contemplating his future becomes romantically involved with a woman released from jail after shooting her husband, the pastor of a snake-handling church.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Not the End of the World.
Noah's daughter, daughters-in-law, sons, wife, and the animals describe what
it was like to be aboard the ark while they watched everyone around them
drown.
Weinheimer, Beckie. Converting Kate.
After moving from Arizona to Maine, sixteen-year-old Kate tries to recover
from her father's death as she resists her mother's dogmatic religious beliefs
and attempts to find a new direction to her life.
Zarr, Sara. Once Was Lost.
As the tragedy of a missing girl enfolds in her small town, fifteen-year-old
Samara, who feels emotionally abandoned by her parents, begins to question
her faith.