Title: God Could Be a Teen:  No One Understands Him Either  The Truth & Freedom of Catholic Morality  Author: James Penrice  ISBN: 0-8189-0777-0  Paperback: xii + 84 pp.  Price: $4.95 + shipping  To Order call:  1 800-343-ALBA (2522)  Please have your Master, Visa  or American Express card ready. To order online click here.

"You want to be loved, but not everybody loves you. There are people you want to have a relationship with who don't love you back -- and it hurts. People misunderstand you. You're a very complicated person, but others see only what's on the outside, and they jump to conclusions about you that aren't true. People tell false stories about you. You have ideas which you know are good, but others make fun of them as being weird. You get blamed for problems that aren't your fault. You know that if people would only make the effort to get to know you... they would understand you better and love you. But you're frustrated that this doesn't always happen.... Don't let it get you down, God -- it happens to me, too." With these words the author opens his discussion with teenagers about the moral problems all humans face. And he offers them some very down-to-earth, concrete suggestions for their consideration as he shows them why God expects certain things of us if we are to reach our full potential here and hereafter.

James Penrice an avid sports fan, graduate of the University of Michigan, former elementary school teacher and presently principal of St. Mary's Grade School in Spring Lake, Michigan, is the author of four Alba House titles: Crossing Home: The Spiritual Lessons of Baseball (1993), Goal to Go: The Spiritual Lessons of Football (1994), If There Is a God, Why Do I Need Braces?: An Adolescent Journey to Adult Faith (1995) and God Could Be a Teen (1997).