Young Adults/Teens Collection

Amy Burke needs suggestions for Christian fiction and Christian Graphic Novels for young adult/teens. In order to minister to all age groups, I am trying different things. I decided to create a Teen Satellite Library in our Youth Center. The Youth Minister is extremely excited about this venture. I just took over the Church Library in February 2023, after it had been closed during Covid. Our young adult section is lacking, geared more toward middle schoolers than high school. I would like some suggestions of some teen Christian authors and titles for books and graphic novels that you have in your libraries or of which you are aware. I am a retired high school English teacher, so I am attuned to all genres but wanted to know what you recommend for Christian Teen Fiction.

Thank you!

Amy Burke

Here is a link our OPAC: https://firstofallon.booksys.net/opac/firstofallon/index.html#menuHome

Click on the Visual Tab, the Children's Collection button and the Graphic Novels button. You will see that we did some creative cataloging with the call number. Our academy librarian wanted to make a distinction between historically based stories and those that were not. She was choosing graphic novels of events that correspond with the academy curriculum. The call numbers on those begin with "A True Event". The letter "A" allows those graphic novels to be at the beginning of the collection. This is not necessarily a recommended list, but a list of our holdings.

Our YA media buttons are black with either pages spread open or Discs spread out. We are not particularly artistic when creating our buttons. Again, you will see our collection, not just what we recommend. Our YA readers are comprised of two groups: juvenile readers that our academy librarian has noticed have a level of maturity for the subject matter and teen agers who are beginning to read adult literature. The academy librarian gets parental permission before she shows sixth grade students the YA section.

For YA, we put some books written for juveniles that contain content that juveniles are not ready for and we add adult books that are okay for teenagers. Fantasy Fiction is especially popular with our readers.

First Baptist Church O'Fallon

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- Amy Burk > Morlee Maynard September 6, 2023 7:52
  
  Thank you, Morlee! Very helpful!
Pat Bredbenner August 30, 2023 9:45

Here is a link our OPAC: https://firstofallon.booksys.net/opac/firstofallon/index.html#menuHome

Click on the Visual Tab, the Children's Collection button and the Graphic Novels button. You will see that we did some creative cataloging with the call number. Our academy librarian wanted to make a distinction between historically based stories and those that were not. She was choosing graphic novels of events that correspond with the academy curriculum. The call numbers on those begin with "A True Event". The letter "A" allows those graphic novels to be at the beginning of the collection. This is not necessarily a recommended list, but a list of our holdings.

Our YA media buttons are black with either pages spread open or Discs spread out. We are not particularly artistic when creating our buttons. Again, you will see our collection, not just what we recommend. Our YA readers are comprised of two groups: juvenile readers that our academy librarian has noticed have a level of maturity for the subject matter and teen agers who are beginning to read adult literature. The academy librarian gets parental permission before she shows sixth grade students the YA section.

For YA, we put some books written for juveniles that contain content that juveniles are not ready for and we add adult books that are okay for teenagers. Fantasy Fiction is especially popular with our readers.

First Baptist Church O'Fallon
- Amy Burk > Pat Bredbenner September 6, 2023 7:47
  
  Thank you so much, Pat! This was very helpful!
Susan Glynn Mule' August 30, 2023 9:38

I can't recommend them yet, but I just put two Melanie Dickinson novels on my Kindle. I hope to read them this weekend to determine if I want them for our library as well.
- Amy Burk > Susan Glynn Mule' September 6, 2023 7:53
  
  Susan, I look forward to hearing what you think about these books.

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