Snack Cake Chronicles

The stories that saved him might swallow him… On a quiet summer morning in a tiny rural town, eight-year-old Riven Smith disappeared from his yard. Nobody heard a thing. His ten-year-old next-door neighbor Lily had always considered Riven a pest, following her around all summer asking questions and telling stories about fairies and gnomes. Worse, he was a weird pest whose mom didn't believe in phones or eating meat or snack cakes. However, once he was gone, she couldn't stop imagining him hurt or scared or dead, and his absence burrowed a hole into her heart that didn't heal. Five years later he comes back: darker, broken, mysterious, and yet still the little boy who'd disappeared. He brings with him pain and secrets and challenges, and Lily vows she will be the friend to older Riven that she hadn't been to the younger one, no matter the cost. That's when she meets Fairyland, the world in Riven's head that kept him company for his long absence. Little does she know the danger, heartache, and wisdom it will require to merge Riven's worlds and bring him safely home in every way. Nor does she know how much she'll grow and learn while she does it. Who knew a pesky little next-door neighbor with a dimpled smile and a bag of homemade granola in his shorts pocket could change a girl's whole world? Finding McHenry is a book of healing, love, friendship, and danger, with a little bit of crazy on the side. A Christian teen read that's just as appealing to adults, it's part of the Snack Cake Chronicles Christian young adult novels. Read them in any order, tales about growing up, growing in faith, and learning to love.

Artist. Vandal. My best friend.Noah is a talented delinquent, a vandal thumbing his nose at the world that hurt and disappointed him. Madelyn, his neighbor, is a good girl, invisible and lonely, who's determined to save Noah from himself. What do they have in common? Both need God's transformational power to heal and rescue their lives.When he loses his parents, wealthy school athlete Noah moves in with his aunt and uncle. His passion is art, and in his anger toward his distant, neglectful parents, he's been practicing that art illegally by spray-painting images on the abandoned warehouses at the edge of town. He has no idea how to continue this under the watchful eye of his new guardians. Why do they care about his life and future when he barely cares about himself?Maddie, his new neighbor, gets sucked into his passions in her attempts to save him, risking her relationships, her reputation, even her life for a guy who doesn't always seem worth it. Shedding her invisible skin and taking risks for someone else is new and uncomfortable, but once she starts, she can't go back to who she was.Unfortunately, illegal hobbies usually have a bad end. It's a good thing God is a master at dramatic saves, bold mercy, and seeing the worth of those the world deems unredeemable.Prompting Noah is part of the Snack Cake Chronicles, Christian young adult novels. Read them in any order, tales about growing up, growing in faith, and learning to love.

Peter doesn't need motheredAfter his mom suffers a brain injury and his dad walks away, Peter Stafford, his big sister Star, and their broken mother move to a small town to live with Pete's grandmother. While Star fights the changes every step of the way, Peter wants to make this work, but what do you do when your mom thinks like a ten-year-old?Wendy Pickens knows she mothers people. Smothers people. Her younger sister and everyone else point that out all the time. But how can she stop being who she is? Meeting a new guy in town hiding in the park gets those maternal feelings going, feelings she wishes she could turn off.Pete takes care of his broken family, and she's drawn to take care of him, not always with the best results. Why does nobody understand her heavy-handed mothering is how she cares? And why did God send her Pete, who thinks he doesn't need one mother, let alone two?But their issues are their strengths, and his loss and her smothering might lead them to rescue one another and a few other lost souls along the way.Part of the Snack Cake Chronicles young adult novel series, Peter and the Water Tower is a Christian teen read that's just as appealing to adults. Read them in any order, tales about growing up, growing in faith, and learning to love.