Looking for a book I read early 1990’s… As I recall, it was a paperback novel, in the Christian fiction genre. The setting seemed to be a suburb at the edge of a town in the American Midwest(?). Seems like a son or daughter of this Christian family encountered and befriended a creature in the wild, and didn’t know for sure how to categorize or react to this creature. It was some sort of Bigfoot or Sasquatch specimen. Others in the town wanted to kill it/he/she(?) out of fear or superstition. As I sort of remember, it seemed the dad interviewed some theologians and came up with a good case to evangelize and baptize the creature.
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book! 