Lies Young Women Believe received a 2009 Christian Book Award nomination from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) in the Children and Youth Category. The winners will be announced at the Christian Book Expo’s opening night on Thursday, March 19, in Dallas, Texas. One of the finalists will also receive the ECPA’s top honor: Christian Book of the Year.

A partnership between best-selling author Nancy Leigh DeMoss and experienced author Dannah Gresh, Lies Young Women Believe is written for girls ages 13 to 19. The book equips young readers with the tools needed to identify where their lives and beliefs have strayed from God’s Word as a result of believing lies about relationships, beauty and self-worth produced by today’s culture.

“An avalanche of alluring but deceptive messages from the culture is leaving a swath of devastation in the hearts and minds of today’s teen girls and setting them up for a lifetime of unnecessary pain and dysfunction,” said DeMoss. “It has been a privilege to partner with Dannah Gresh and Moody Publishers to speak truth into the lives of these young women, and has been exciting to see the responsiveness of so many teen girls to this counter-cultural message. As their lives are transformed through embracing the truth, our prayer is that these young women in turn will take up the baton of Truth and be used of God to point their generation—and the next—to Christ.”

The annual ECPA awards have recognized the finest in Christian publishing since 1978. Books are considered in six categories: Bibles, Bible Reference and Study, Children and Youth, Inspiration and Gift, Christian Life and Fiction.