Melody Carlson

Sixteen-year-old Caitlin O'Conner keeps a six-month diary in which she records the day-to-day events of her life as well as her struggles to understand herself and God's plan for her future.

Becoming Me

Two sophomore girls, best friends since kindergarten, grow apart when one wants new friends and decides the other is a popularity liability.

Color Me Lonely

Dark Blue

Home is the place to heal, right? At least, that's what Dillon Michaels is hoping as she leaves her disappointing career and nonstarter love life behind to help her grieving and aging grandfather on his small Oregon farm. The only problem? Her eccentric mother beat her there and has taken over Dillon's old room. After a few nights sleeping on a sagging sofa, Dillon is ready to give up, until she receives an unlikely gift--her grandfather's run-down vintage camp trailer, which she quickly resolves to restore with the help of Jordan Atwood, the handsome owner of the local hardware store. But just when things are finally beginning to run smoothly, Dillon's noncommittal ex-boyfriend shows up with roses . . . and a ring. Full of quirky characters, family drama, and sweet romance, The Happy Camper will have you scouring Craigslist for your own diamond-in-the-rough camper to restore and haunting your local hardware store for a handy guy to help your dreams come true.

The Happy Camper

DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who owns a boarding house for rich, fashion-obsessed teenaged girls, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy image or trying to fit in.

Mixed Bags

Sixteen-year-old Caitlin struggles with her feelings about her best friend's pregnancy, boys who tempt her to break her vow not to date, non-Christian friends, and what God may be calling her to do with her life.

It's My Life

After one of their classmates kills himself, seventeen-year-old Morgan, whose faith in God was already wavering, makes a suicide pact with some other students.

Color Me Lost

Pitch Black

An intelligent but insecure fifteen-year-old aspiring musician, who sports off-beat clothes, spiked hair, and multiple piercings, questions the existence of God until she meets Him head-on in a graveyard.

A Novel

My Name is Chloe

A Christian high school girl considers having sex with a former boyfriend in order to win him back.

Color Me Jealous

Deep Green

Feeling like she is the only virgin on the planet, a high school junior wrestles with questions about love and sex before ultimately choosing to give herself to God instead of her boyfriend.

Color Me Torn

Torch Red

Originally trying to lose only a few pounds, seventeen-year-old Emily's weight loss spins out of control as she develops eating disorders until she decides that trusting in God and her friends can help her regain her health.

Color Me Trapped

Faded Denim

In her first year at college, Caitlin's diary reflects on her homesickness, the challenges of rooming with a non-Christian, and evolving friendships, old and new.

A Novel. Caitlin no. 4 /

Diary of a Teenage Girl: On My Own

Ruth copes with an abusive situation at home by cutting herself, until her high school counselor helps her get the treatment she needs to start a new life.

Color Me Scarred

Blade Silver

DJ's efforts to make sense of Christianity, prayer, and the Bible only seem to make it harder for her to deal with the inability of the girls in her grandmother's boardinghouse to get along, especially when Taylor begins flirting with Rhiannon's boyfriend.

Stealing Bradford

For years, Alice's "little idiosyncrasies" were excused for her high intelligence, but during her senior year at college it becomes apparent that she is suffering from schizophrenia and must now cope with new demons and "treatments."

Finding Alice

The daughter of a pastor justifies going to drinking parties as helping others, disregarding the feelings of real friends.

Color Me Wasted

Burnt Orange

Seventeen-almost eighteen-year-old Caitlin O'Conner finds herself trying to make it through her senior year, struggling with difficult decisions and discovering the constant, unwaivering love of God.

Who I Am

Looking for Leroy

Twenty-one-year-old Caitlin starts a new diary to record her experiences when she becomes engaged and has to struggle to remember to focus on God, her friends, and her senior year in college as her head swims with wedding plans.

I Do!

Conflicts arise when fifteen-year-old Chloe Miller and her fellow band members are discovered by a talent scout from Nashville and are invited to record and tour.

Sold Out

Seventeen-year-old Chloe Miller and her friends continue to tour as Redemption, a rising new Christian band, experiencing love, death, and marriage, but learning where to turn when things spin out of control.

Melody Carlson

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