Teens
Real people, real questions and the greatest stories ever told, in words you’ll actually read.
60 books · 4 Book Series
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Where do you want to start?
The great adventure
The Pilgrim’s Progress (For Teens)
Written in a prison cell: one man, a crushing burden, and the road to real life.
12 chapters · ~4 min a chapter
Grow with the story
Anchored
Take the 30-day challenge
One short reading a day: a verse, what it means and a prayer. Can you go all 30?
Real people. True stories.
Every one of them was once your age. Tap a face to read their story.
Charles Spurgeon The Boy Who Looked 15 min read
Samson Occom The Boy Who Taught Himself to Read 14 min read
Robert Murray M’Cheyne A Brother Who Cannot Die 16 min read
Billy Graham The Boy Who Hid in the Choir 13 min read
Kanzo Uchimura The Boy Who Prayed Against God 15 min read
Richard Allen The Night the Dungeon Shook 14 min read
Josephine Bakhita The Girl Who Said No 15 min read
John Newton The Storm That Would Not Let Him Go 17 min read
Sadhu Sundar Singh The Boy Who Waited for the Train 15 min read
In their own words
Come by faith to Jesus, for without him you perish for ever.
Consider, my brethren, that all we have and are is entrusted to us by Almighty God.
Book Series 4
Straight Talk
33 booksRead in any order · ~3 min a chapter
Languages: ENFRPT
Christian classics and true lives retold for teenage readers, honest and in plain words: Bunyan's pilgrim on the road to the Celestial City, Spurgeon's straight talk from the farm, and the men and women who staked everything on God.
Books in this series33
- Talks to the Farmer (For Teens)
- A Retrospect (For Teens)
- The Life of Trust (For Teens)
- The Pilgrim’s Progress (For Teens)
- Amanda Smith: An Autobiography (For Teens)
- All of Grace (For Teens)
- Samuel Ajayi Crowther (For Teens)
- Corrie ten Boom (For Teens)
- Elisabeth Elliot (For Teens)
- C. S. Lewis (For Teens)
- Praying Hyde (For Teens)
- Mary Slessor (For Teens)
- Pandita Ramabai (For Teens)
- Watchman Nee (For Teens)
- Grace Abounding (For Teens)
- Confessions (For Teens)
- The Practice of the Presence of God (For Teens)
- The Imitation of Christ (For Teens)
- The Pursuit of God (For Teens)
- The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (For Teens)
- Absolute Surrender (For Teens)
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (For Teens)
- Pensées (For Teens)
- The Bruised Reed (For Teens)
- The Mortification of Sin (For Teens)
- The Way to God (For Teens)
- Amy Carmichael (For Teens)
- The Life of Antony (For Teens)
- David Livingstone (For Teens)
- Orthodoxy (For Teens)
- The Secret of Guidance (For Teens)
- How to Succeed in the Christian Life (For Teens)
- C. T. Studd (For Teens)
More to read 18
Study, friends, pressure, money and failure: a guide to growing up wise.
Almost believing, but not quite? A friendly talk for anyone standing at the gate.
The full original: Spurgeon’s plain word to anyone who thinks they’re too far gone.
D. L. Moody, a shoe salesman turned preacher, on how to actually find God.
Prayer is more than a wish list. What it is, how to do it, and how to keep going.
What faith really is, and what Noah, Abraham and Rahab show us about trusting God with tomorrow.
Why so many believers stall, and six steps toward the life God made you for.
Fifty years of following God one step at a time, from the classroom to the far side of the world.
Who you are in Christ, and what a strong, godly woman looks like.
Courage, self-control and the battle within: what a godly man looks like.
Hudson Taylor tells it himself: the last coin, the voyage, and the prayers that opened China.
Amy Carmichael refused to make missions sound nice. This is what she actually saw in India.
George Müller’s own journal: every need of his orphans, asked of God alone, and every answer.
A young missionary alone in the wilderness, writing down his doubts, his prayers and his longing for God.
A cricket star who gave away his fortune, and nine others who followed Jesus whatever it cost.
Spurgeon, Müller, Hudson Taylor: what happened when ordinary men really prayed.
From a mother who prayed for seventeen years to Corrie ten Boom in a death camp.
Sixty-six books, one story: from a garden to a city, with Jesus at the centre of it all.
Plans 5
Anchored: Two Months with God for Teens
64 days·~4 min/dayTwo months with God for readers aged 13 to 17: both books of Anchored — Is It True? Who Am I? and Real Life — one devotion a day on the honest questions of faith, who you are in Christ, and following Jesus through worry, screens, friendships, home and grief. Each day ends with a pointer to one chapter of a classic.
Day 1 ·Anchored – 30 Days with God for Teens – Book 1
Starting Out: Faith for Teens
24 days·~7 min/dayA first walk with Jesus, for teenage readers. Charles Spurgeon meets you at the gate with the plainest of help for anyone finding their way to Christ; then the true stories of men and women who gave him everything show what that life becomes — two short books over about three weeks.
Day 1 ·Around the Wicket Gate
Growing in Wisdom in 18 Days
18 days·~3 min/dayJames DeGreef's guide for students — one short reading a day for eighteen days. From discovering your purpose to building a vision for the future, each day pairs practical counsel with a Scripture, a reflection, and a prayer.
Day 1 ·Growing in Wisdom
They Were Young: Two Weeks of True Stories
14 days·~14 min/dayTwo weeks of true stories for readers aged 13 to 17: both books of They Were Young — Called and Tested — one life a day, from Spurgeon in a snowstorm and Richard Allen in Delaware to Patrick, Perpetua and the Uganda Martyrs, each ending with questions to think through.
Day 1 ·They Were Young – Book 1: Called
Everything for Christ: A Life Poured Out
25 days·~25 min/dayWhat does whole-hearted surrender cost, and what does it yield? David Brainerd's searching missionary diary, followed by the stories of men and women who gave everything for the sake of the gospel — a call to consecration told through lives that answered it.
Day 1 ·The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
Big questions 6
Honest questions, answered from the Bible and the classics — each one points on to a book.
Can I Be a Christian and Still Have Doubts?
Doubt does not disqualify you from faith. How honest questions can drive you toward God, and how to hold on when belief feels thin.
Is the Bible Reliable? An Honest Look for Teens
You have heard the Bible was changed, contradictory, or just old myths. Here is an honest look at whether it can be trusted — at a teenager’s level.
Why Would a Good God Allow Suffering?
If God is good and all-powerful, why is there so much pain? An honest look at the hardest question — free will, the cross, Romans 8:28, and a world made right.
Do Science and Faith Really Contradict Each Other?
You were told to choose between science and God. You don’t have to. Science answers how; faith answers who and why — and the deepest questions belong to both.
How Do We Know Jesus Really Rose From the Dead?
A teenager’s honest question deserves an honest answer: the real historical case for the resurrection, and what it means if it’s true.
Aren’t All Religions Basically the Same?
You’ve been told all religions teach the same thing, and that saying Jesus is the only way sounds arrogant. Here’s an honest, humble look at why the real question is what is true.
For churches and homeschools 33
Week-by-week leader’s guides you can print, one week for each chapter: a summary, a memory verse, questions and a simple activity.
For parents and youth leaders
Everything here is free to read: no account, no ads and nothing to buy.
Read alongside them, or take a book or plan through with a youth group. Each reading plan sets out one short reading a day.
These have a free printable PDF and EPUB — find Download on the book’s page:
- Straight Talk
- Anchored – 30 Days with God for Teens
- They Were Young
- Real Questions
- Growing in Wisdom
- Around the Wicket Gate
- All of Grace
- The Way to God
- He Holds My Tomorrows
- Soar Like The Eagle
- Stepping Stones
- Clothed with Strength and Dignity
- Rise Up, Men of God
- A Retrospect
- Things as They Are
- The Life of Trust
- The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
- Men and Women Who Gave Everything
- Men Who Moved Heaven
- Women Who Moved Heaven
- The Big Story