About Cross Creek Books & Cross Creek YA

Cross Creek Books™ and Cross Creek YA™

"The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook." Proverbs 18:4 King James Version (KJV)

Cross Creek Books™ publishes Middle Grade (MG) Christian fiction written and illustrated for ages 8 and older.

All of the Cross Creek Books titles are profanity-free, feature Christian characters, protagonists that rely on the word of God for their strength and endurance against their struggles, challenges and find victory and triumph over their tribulations using their newly found faith, and trust in Jesus.

Inside each of our Cross Creek Books titles you'll meet characters who are saved, characters who aren't sure what they believe or if they can even trust in a Lord they can't see, and characters who may never find the Lord at all.

Depending on the book imprint and series, our titles may be available as handouts, serials, short stories, audio, paperback, coil binding, hardcover and in boxed sets.

Cross Creek Books™ feature kids who enjoy life, experience friendships, various family relationships, and their stories may be set anywhere in the world. Each title sends its characters on new adventures, exploring mysteries, and making their own history.

Cross Creek YA™ publishes Young Adult (YA) Christian fiction for ages 13 and up.

Author and Illustrator:

National Award-winning and #1 international best-selling author, photographer and illustrator, Lisa Loucks-Christenson is the creator and illustrator (accept for some covers) of the Cross Creek Books™ and Cross Creek YA Series writing as Lisa Loucks-Christenson or L.L. Christenson, depending on the series or line.

Christenson writes episodes, ebooks, and books, she sells her work through Silver Lake Books and Peacock Books & Wildlife Art, and Old Country Cross Christian Bookstore, the three bricks-and-mortar retail stores that carry her exclusive art, books, Christian greeting cards, wildlife documentaries, exhibits, and art.

Lisa Loucks-Christenson Christian titles are published through various imprints, depending the age and genre. Some of these include: Cross Creek Books, Cross Creek YA, Snowy River Press™ (ebooks) and Snowy River Books™ (print), Snowy Creek Serials™ (serial fiction), and other publishing imprints.

Writing and illustrating her books is Loucks-Christenson's way of serving others by offering inspiring stories that entertain and encourage people of all ages. Christenson's customers often comment that her work is a ministry as shares her personal relationship with Jesus.

Loucks-Christenson hopes to uplift others through her stories, art, and photos as she documents the world she studies through her observations, through her camera lens, and in her art books and journals. Loucks-Christenson helps her her customers from all over the world, of all faiths and religions, find joy and the beauty in our ever-changing world, through her work, through the seasons, by sharing what she finds in God's smallest details.

Loucks-Christenson's vision for her books written for all specific ages (through different imprints) is clear: Christenson believes in uplifting readers by writing faith-challenging stories and sharing bible verses to lean on through personal struggles, and teaching others to use their faith during their set-backs, their trials, and their own personal struggles, and to show her readers how to let God and His angels fight your battles, even when nothing appears to be changing.

Cross Creek YA™ for Young Adults focus on teen relationships, faith walks, and decisions made through prayer and faith. Our heroes and heroines always come out of their struggles and situations stronger, wiser, and with a deeper faith.

Snowy River Press™ and Snowy River Books™

If you arrived at our website looking for Christian books for ages 18+ please visit our Snowy River Press (ebooks), and Snowy River Books™ (hardcover, paperback books) collections.

Cross Creek Books™, Cross Creek YA™, Snowy River Press™, & Snowy River Books™, Snowy Creek Serials™

Whether you are searching for middle grade, young adult, or adult Christian books or Inspirational books, all of our books, no matter what your choice of age groups preferences are, we offer faith-moving, sweet stories that are profanity free.

"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer." Psalm 45:1 King James Version (KJV)

Our books are sold exclusively through our retail bricks-and-mortar stores, our ebooks are sold through both our retail stores, our online stores, and our online publishers IE: Amazon. USA buyers can purchase our books through our store to be shipped almost anywhere in the USA. At this time our books are not available outside of the USA for distribution, except through Gardner's, Amazon, Over Drive, and select others.

Disclaimer: Our stories may includes deaths, emotional breakdowns, broken relationships, grief, pain but each work is written with sensitivity and respect for others who really do face the fictional events portrayed in these books. No matter the outcome, or struggles faced in the stories: all of our books include good endings.

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