faith

In book two of The Anchor & Sophia series, Clive and Clover Hamill, Gemma Poplin, and Paz Dedios have been separated physically and philosophically during their flight from the Anchor to Sophia. What they learn together and apart leads them to question everything they believe and could threaten the fate of the entire civilization.

"After passing out during a game, Manny discovers that he has lupus and the diagnosis causes him to question everything in his life, from playing soccer to his faith"--Provided by publisher.

From bestselling author Morgan Harper Nichols, You Are Only Just Beginning is an illustrated poetry collection that invites you to imagine the adventures ahead of you and step out in faith that you have what it takes to embark on a new journey.

Fourteen-year-old Orla's mum is dead. She lives in England with her unemployed father and baby sister Lily, but she's planning to run away to live in Northern Ireland, where her mother is buried. Preoccupied with trouble at home and at school, she accidentally crashes her bike into a man who calls himself Jesus and says he is the Son of God. He has never seen a smartphone. He can raise animals from the dead by blowing into their mouths, including Orla's cat Sneaky. Orla convinces Jesus to come with her to Ireland to bring her mum back to life and she teaches him how to ride a bike to get there. But Jesus has plans of his own, and after one of his revivals goes horribly wrong, Orla must decide how far she is willing to go to save her mother.

Jesse and his wife, Desir?, spent years trying to conceive their first child together. When they were blessed with the news that they would soon be welcoming a daughter to the family, they felt all their prayers were answered. As Jesse and his family's life filled with the excitement and hope of the arrival of a baby girl, little did they know the level of fear and pain that would soon flood their lives.

The day the train fell in the lake, Cassie stopped believing in much of anything, despite growing up in a devout Catholic family. Then she set her mind to forgetting the strange boy named Elias who was with her when it happened. When Elias comes back to town after many years away, Cassie finds herself talked into sneaking out at night to follow him ghost-hunting--though she knows better than to believe they will find any spirits. Still, the more time she spends with Elias--with his questions, his rebelliousness, his imagination that is so much bigger than the box she has made for herself--the more Cassie thinks that even in a world that seems broken beyond repair, there just may be something worth believing in.

Rendered outcast from Eleanor of Aquitaine's court, Marie de France finds herself sent to England to take over the job of a prioress in an impoverished abbey. All her dreams and youthful passions needing to be suppressed, she throws herself into her new devotion to her sister nuns, and increasingly into her supernatural visions. However, the world is changing in frightening ways, and if she does not fight for herself, she will be bowled under.

Thirteen-year-old Dellie is overcome with guilt and grief when her brother dies, but when she finds herself at odds with her best friend, Dellie reaches out to a neglected boy who lives in her building in the projects and learns how to have faith in herself from a new neighbor.

Mina, seventeen, has everything going for her until she discovers she is pregnant and no one, especially her boyfriend and her father, will believe that she is a virgin except for the few who have faith that miracles are possible and that her unborn child could be the greatest miracle of all.

Introduces religious beliefs and how to respect others' faith.