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Believers and Doubters:
Teen Fiction about Religion

Religion can affect our lives in many ways. From ridicule to rapture, follow these teens as they experience religion socially, politically and spiritually.

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Does My Head Look Big in This Abdel-Fattah, Randa
Does My Head Look Big in This?
Amal's world is turned upside-down when she chooses to wear the hijab at her prep school.
Finding Alice Carlson, Melody
Finding Alice
Teenager Alice is hearing voices in her head. Can one of them be God's?
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dorris, Michael
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Three generations of Native American women relay the stories of their lives, intertwined with spiritual myths and social circumstances.
Dark Sons Grimes, Nikki
Dark Sons
Poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as the come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and their love for their younger stepbrothers.
Godless Hautman, Pete
Godless
When Jason Bock and his high school friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.
Friends Hoffman, Alice
Incantation
During the Spanish Inquisition, 16 year old Catholic Estrella discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and the consequences are tragic.
Monkey Town Kidd, Ronald
Monkey Town: a Story of the Scopes Trial
When her father arrests a local teacher for teaching evolution, the resulting trial prompts Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion, as well as her relationship with her father.
Buddha Boy Koja, Kathe
Buddha Boy
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impace Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
Little Piece Laird, Elizabeth
A Little Piece of Ground
During the Israeli occupation of Ramallah in the West Bank of Palestine, Karim and his friend create a secret place for themselves where they can momentarily forget the horrors of war.
Time's Memory Lester, Julius
Time's Memory
Ekundayo, a Dogon spirit brought to America from Africa, inhabits the body of a young African American slave on a Virginia plantation where he experiences loss, sorrow, and reconciliation in the months preceding the Civil War.
Wide Awake Levithan, David
Wide Awake
In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president, 16-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his politics and his religious beliefs, and tries to determine his place in the world.
Blue is for Nightmares Stolarz, Laurie Faria
Blue is for Nightmares
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea -- unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.
Kapilavastu Tezuka, Osamu
Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu
This is the first in an 8-volume graphic novelization of the life of Siddhartha, the prince who became Buddha.
No Shame, No Fear Turnbull, Ann.
No Shame, No Fear
In 17th century England, a time of immense religious persecution, a Quaker and an Anglican fall in love against all odds.
Converting Kate 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.
Blind Faith Wittlinger, Ellen
Blind Faith
While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's fascination with a spiritualist church whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, 15-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
Want to read nonfiction that deals with religion and spirituality? Try our Religion and Spirituality: Teen Nonfiction booklist.

Looking for more books about religion? Check out the Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Religion: Relationship with the Divine list, compiled by members of the Young Adult Library Services Association in 2007.

List updated by Holly, June 2007.


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