Departures

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 1 October 1999
Three exciting stories from today's hottest youth authors that feature Christy Miller, Sierra Jensen, and Cooper Ellis crossing paths, traveling through the country, and learning new things about faith and themselves.

Book 1

Summer Promise

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 1 January 1988
A summer in California for Wisconsin farm girl Christy Miller brings her a new image, a moral dilemma involving the local fast crowd, an encounter with Christianity, and a vortex of questions about what is important in life.

Book 2

A Whisper and a Wish

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 17 September 1989
When her family relocates to California, fifteen-year-old Christy Miller faces new dreams and disappointments as she decides what price she's willing to pay for making new friends.

Book 3

Yours Forever

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 10 June 1990
In trying to win the attention of handsome Todd, fifteen-year-old Christy alienates everyone else but discovers that God cares for her even during broken relationships.

Book 4

Surprise Endings

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 26 May 1991
Fifteen-year-old Christy hopes to make the cheerleading squad, which would give her a greater opportunity to take a stand for Christ among the popular girls in school, but she faces a jealous classmate and financial constraints.

Book 5

Island Dreamer

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 20 April 1992
Christy Miller visits Hawaii, where she turns sixteen and overcomes her fear of driving during an island adventure.

Book 6

Heart Full of Hope

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 7 September 1992
Sixteen-year-old Christy is swept off her feet by Rick, a handsome Christian boy who wants to go steady with her, but her friendship with Todd makes her decision a difficult one.

Book 7

True Friends

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 2 March 1993
New twists and turns abound in sixteen-year-old Christy Miller's life as she finds herself on a ski slope in the arms of a handsome ski instructor and shares more madcap adventures with best friend Katie.

Book 8

Starry Night

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 21 June 1993
An invitation from her ex-boyfriend Rick to attend the Bible study group in his apartment confuses sixteen-year-old Christy and reminds her of the severe restrictions placed on her activities by her parents.

Book 9

Seventeen Wishes

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 20 September 1993
Teens across the nation have made this series from Robin Jones Gunn a bestseller! Readers can find out for themselves why the series is so popular as they, too, become friends with Christy Miller. She becomes the perfect role model for today's teens by making a commitment to Christ in the first book and then growing in her walk with the Lord in the next eleven books. Throughout the series, Christy learns about friendships, dating, becoming responsible, waiting on God, being faithful, and God's rewards for obedience.

Book 10

Time to Cherish

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 15 March 1994
Christy Miller's senior year holds great promise, with Todd seemingly ready to make a deeper commitment to their relationship, but then she faces separate problems with her friends, Katie and Doug.

Book 11

Sweet Dreams

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 1 March 1994
Teens across the nation have made this series from Robin Jones Gunn a bestseller! Readers can find out for themselves why the series is so popular as they, too, become friends with Christy Miller. She becomes the perfect role model for today's teens by making a commitment to Christ in the first book and then growing in her walk with the Lord in the next eleven books. Throughout the series, Christy learns about friendships, dating, becoming responsible, waiting on God, being faithful, and God's rewards for obedience.

Book 12

A Promise is Forever

by Robin Jones Gunn

Published 8 August 1994
Eighteen-year-old Christy goes on a missionary trip to Europe with her friends Katie and Doug and is reunited with her old boyfriend Todd.


The first twelve books in the popular Christy Miller series are now available in four treasured volumes!

Bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn packs each one with enough action, romance, and drama to keep you reading and wanting more. It all starts the summer Christy vacations on a California beach and meets two friends who change her life forever. But after moving across the country with her family, Christy must begin her sophomore year of high school uncertain where she’ll fit in. A red-headed new best friend, a try at cheerleading, a job at a pet store, and expectations for the prom fill Christy’s high school years with a string of laughter-and-tears moments. Fireball Katie keeps everyone guessing what she’ll do next, and surfer Todd keeps showing up while popular Rick has determined to get her full attention! As these memorable years unfold, Christy and her God-loving friends find out what it means to be a “peculiar treasure.” Follow Christy Miller as she stays true to her identity in Christ, drawing closer to God for help in realizing her dreams and dealing with her disappointments.

Whether you’re meeting her for the first time or have known her for years—

Christy Is a Forever Friend

Summer Promise

Fourteen-year-old Christy Miller has the dream summer ahead of her in sun-kissed California, staying with her aunt and uncle at their beachfront home. Aunt Marti loves to shop, and those surfers are cute—especially Todd. Christy promised her parents she wouldn’t do anything she’d regret later, and some of her beach friends are a little wild. But Todd and his “God-Lover” friends are giving Christy a new image of all things eternal. Can this summer live up to its promise?

A Whisper and a Wish

Christy’s family has moved to California just in time for her sophomore year of high school. But they’re not in Newport Beach, where she spent the summer. Instead they’re an hour and a half away and Christy has to start all over making friends. Despite an embarrassing escapade at a slumber party, things are going pretty well...until some midnight fun leads to a trip to the police station. Does God really hear every whisper? Does He know our every wish? Then why is it so hard to know who your friends really are?

Yours Forever

Christy is back at Aunt Marti and Uncle Bob’s house on the beach for the entire week between Christmas and New Year’s...and Todd is in town, too! The cute surfer completely captured Christy’s heart last summer, and she’s eager to spend every possible minute with him. But soon Christy and her aunt are barely speaking, and it seems like all her friends are mad at her, too—including Todd! Is he hers or isn’t he? And why would God let things get so tangled?

Story Behind the Book

“The Christy Miller series was actually born when a group of thirteen-year-olds challenged me to write a novel. I’d been questioning the content of their favorite books when they said, ‘Why don’t you write a book for us?’ I told them no, I only wrote picture books. But they persisted: ‘How hard could it be? We’ll even tell you what to write! We want a love story with teenagers at the beach.’ And there you go. Summer Promise first released seventeen years ago and is now translated into five languages. I continue to hear from readers all over the world, many girls saying that they gave their life to Christ after reading Summer Promise. I love that!”

—Robin Jones Gunn