Conviction
Author: Kelly Loy Gilbert
Release Date: May 19th, 2015
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Book Description:
Ten years ago, God
gave Braden a sign, a promise that his family wouldn’t fall apart the way he
feared.
But Braden got it wrong: his older brother, Trey, has been estranged from the
family for almost as long, and his father, the only parent Braden has ever
known, has been accused of murder. The arrest of Braden’s father, a well-known
Christian radio host, has sparked national media attention. His fate lies in
his son’s hands; Braden is the key witness in the upcoming trial.
Braden has always measured himself through baseball. He is the star pitcher in
his small town of Ornette, and his ninety-four-mile-per-hour pitch al- ready
has minor league scouts buzzing in his junior year. Now the rules of the sport
that has always been Braden’s saving grace are blurred in ways he never
realized, and the prospect of playing against Alex Reyes, the nephew of the
police officer his father is accused of killing, is haunting his every pitch.
Braden faces an impossible choice, one that will define him for the rest of his
life, in this brutally honest debut novel about family, faith, and the ultimate
test of conviction.