The month of March is dedicated to St. Joseph. Did you know that Pope Francis declared 2021 as the Year of St. Joseph too? Maybe you’ve...

The purpose of life is to reach God, so we want to make everything we own work towards this. Since what we read can have a strong...

Do you have any book friends? In other words, do you have fictional friends who inhabit books? The best writers, in my mind, are those...

Why does Christmas instill warmth in our hearts? Why are we so eager, especially this year, to dive into Advent and the Christmas season?...

Are you having trouble getting your teen to read? Or maybe you have a book enthusiast at your home, but they only want books by certain...

I wrote this blog post in 2015, but the topic is more relevant today than it was even back then. In my novels, my protagonists are...

The way we consume books may have changed from paperbacks and hard covers to electronic tablets, phones, and audiobooks, but one thing...

As with all things in life, the key to getting through a difficult time is to focus on our faith. Faith is always the key. As parents,...

and help them build their identities All educators of teens read today’s young-adult novels. Wait—what? You don’t? Well, I don’t blame...

Fiction can have a huge influence in a person’s life, but much more so in a child’s. Teens deal with a multitude of struggles, from...

When I recall the beginnings of CatholicTeenBooks, one concept is at its origin – a search for value-based books. This search is how many...

Finding ways to encourage students to read for fun is an age-old struggle. Today, ever-present distractions created by cell phones,...

The authors at Catholic Teen Books decided it was time. Our blog is born today. We hope to provide valuable information for teens who...