Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen
Harcourt Brace, 1998
Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe.
YT FICTION YOL

Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
Frances Foster Books, 2003
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 impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
YA FICTION KOJ

The Calling by Cathryn Clinton
Candlewick Press, 2001
In 1962 in South Carolina, twelve-year-old Esta is called into the ministry of Jesus and anointed with the gift of healing, but when her relatives decide to take her on a religious crusade she wonders if it is the right thing to do.
YT FICTION CLI

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Viking, 2002
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
YA FICTION AND

The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Ballantine Books, 2003
The story of two Jewish boys and their fathers in New York; they grow up in two different worlds, trying to live together while following the beliefs that drive them apart.
FICTION POT

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Knopf, 1927
The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and with another priest wins the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.
FICTION CAT

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
W.W. Norton & Co, 2001
The residents of a small Bombay apartment complex deal with life's problems ranging from social status to spiritual transcendence while Vishnu, their alcoholic houseboy, is dying on the staircase landing.
FICTION SUR

Friends and Enemies by LouAnn Bigge Gaeddert
Atheneum, 2000
In 1941 in Kansas, as America enters World War II, fourteen-year-old William finds himself alienated from his friend Jim, a Mennonite who does not believe in fighting for any reason, as they argue about the war.
YT FICITON GAE

The Hangman's Curse by Frank E. Peretti
Tommy Nelson, 2001
When several students at Baker High School are stricken by an alleged curse of the school's ghost, Elijah and Elisha Springfield and their parents, undercover investigators, are sent to uncover the truth behind the events.
YA FICTION PER

Joshua by Girzone
Macmillan, 1987
In an urban community where poverty, senseless violence, racism and AIDS seem insurmountable problems, Joshua manages to sow seeds of renewal with his words of love.
FICTION GIR

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende
HarperCollins, 2004
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
YA FICTION ALL

Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
William Morrow, 1999
When her parents divorce, seven-year-old Faith finds a friend who supports her--a friend who may be imaginary. Is Faith a prophet or just a troubled little girl?
FICTION PIC

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Harcourt, 2001
The precocious son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel is raised in India, where he tries on various faiths for size. While moving to Canada, Pi is shipwrecked; he finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal.
FICTION MAR

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Orchard Books, 1999
During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.
YA FICTION MAR

Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
Bethany House, 1979
Marty, a young pioneer woman, recently widowed and pregnant with no place to live and no means to go home, is asked by a local man to be wife of convenience and a caretaker for his young daughter. Marty is not at all interested, but desperately in need; she accepts, following her head, heart and faith.
FICTION OKE

Ordinary Miracles by Stephanie S. Tolan
Morrow, 1999
Tired of being a twin, Mark tries to spend more time away from his twin brother and meets a scientist who challenges some of Mark's long-held Christian beliefs about heaven, God, prayer, and death.
YT FICTION TOL

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Bantam Books, 1951
A young Indian mystic, a contemporary of Buddha, sacrifices everything to search for the true meaning of life.
PB CLASSIC HES

A Stone in My Hand by Cathryn Clinton
Candlewick Press, 2002
Eleven-year-old Malaak and her family are touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and Palestinians when first her father disappears and then her older brother is drawn to the Islamic Jihad.
YT FICTION CLI

Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
YA FICTION STA