YOUTH CULTURE:

• Hurt by Chap Clark
• When Kids Hurt by Chap Clark.
• Hurt 2.0 by Chap Clark.
• A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence by Patricia Hersch
• The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine.
• The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
• The Overachievers:  The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins
• Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture and Youth Culture 101 by Walt Mueller
• Opie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore by Walt Mueller
• The Space Between:  A parent’s guide to teenage development by Walt Mueller
• Growing up Christian by Karl Graustein
• The Juvenilization of American Christianity by Thomas Bergler
• Introverts in the Church:  Finding Our Place In An Extroverted Culture by Adam Mchugh.

YOUTH MINISTRY RESEARCH AND TRENDS:

• The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry by Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean
• Soul Searching by Christian Smith
• You Lost Me: Why Young Christians are the Leaving the Church…and Rethinking Faith by Dave Kinnaman
• UnChristian: What a new generation really thinks about Christianty and why it matters by Gabe Lyons and Dave Kinnaman
• A Faith of Their Own:  Stability and Change in the Religiosity of American Adolescents by Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton.
• Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling Us about the American Church by Kenda Creasy Dean
• You Lost Me:  Why Young Christians are Leaving the Faith…and Rethinking Faith by Dave Kinnaman

YOUTH MINISTRY TOOLS:

• Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn’t Last and What
• Your Church Can Do About It by Mark Devries
• Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From A Strategy of Influence To A Theology of Incarnation by Andrew Root.
• The Indispensable Youth Pastor and Before You Hire A Youth Pastor by Mark Devries and Jeff Dunn-Rankin.
• Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We’ve Been, Where We Are and Where We Need to Go by Mark Oestreicher
• Youth Ministry in Modern America: 1930 to the Present by Jon Pahl

REFORMED YOUTH MINISTRY:

• Giving Up Gimmicks:  Reclaiming Youth Ministry from an Entertainment Culture by Dr. Brian Cosby
• Rebels Rescued:  A Student’s Guide to Reformed Theologyby Dr. Brian Cosby.
• Bible Study:  A Student’s Guide by Jon Nielson
• Heirs of the Covenant: Leaving a Legacy of Faith for the Next Generation by Susan Hunt