Suitable Bible recommendations for a 12-year-old exploring Christianity

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My autistic DD (12) has expressed a desire to explore Christianity. We are not a religious family and she only has minimal exposure through school, but I am really keen to to support her.

She is really keen to read the bible, but I am not sure where would be a good place for her to start. We have looked in a book store, but they only had childrens first bibles or ones that I was concerned she would not be able to access.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a suitable bible that we could get her?

Thanks!

My son has this book, it's really good. My boys have the action bible as well and I had the youth bible as a teen. I still prefer that one tbh but it fell apart and my inlaws gave me a kjv and expected me to be grateful that I had a "proper bible" at long last.

I find that any book by j john is really good.

The 100 minute bible is for some people a good way of getting an overview before reading on in more detail. Not for everyone but I have used it with young adults.

I find that any book by j john is really good. @elliejjtiny Agreed! I love J John. He is a brilliant communicator of the Faith.

If she is interested in exploring Christianity why don't you see if there is a youth group at a nearby church. Maybe it will be easier for her than just giving her a Bible to read. As a life long Christian I struggle with just opening a Bible! She might make sone friends too and have fun.

Does your local church have a Youth Group? My 15 year old is on a similar journey exploring faith, and decided to join the church youth group around 5 months ago (we hadn’t been regular church goers before this). It has been great for him both for making some similar-minded friends, but also the youth pastor leads bible studies where they can explore different parts of the bible together

Have you had a visit to your local library? I know the children’s non fiction section in ours has a selection of books about different religions, some aimed older kids/teen

The Essential Bible Companion is a great first christian book.

Each page gives you an overview of a book from the bible: key themes, who's who, nice little map and timeline.

Very accessible introduction.