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Just an accident,\nDad didn’t mean to kill him.
\nWhat happened to our bargain, God?<\/p>\n
Just an accident,
\nDad didn’t mean to kill him.
\nWhat happened to our bargain, God?<\/p>\n
Braden just wants to pitch his high school team to the state Finals again and get drafted for a pro baseball team<\/a>.<\/p>\n But he hadn’t considered that his radio talk-show dad would be jailed for running over the Mexican-American cop who crossed him a while back… Go to the publisher’s website here<\/a> and click on ‘Sneak Peek’ for a free pdf download of the book’s first chapters, then grab this compelling book at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prayers or promises? Book info<\/strong>: Conviction \/ Kelly Loy Gilbert. Hyperion Teen, 2015. [author’s Facebook<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: Braden was in the car when his dad ran over the cop, but the high school junior can’t imagine being called to testify in the religious talk show host’s trial or having his big brother back home 10 years after Trey left their small California town or trying to calmly pitch to the cop’s nephew in the most important game of the season.<\/p>\n How can Dad say he loves God and then hate people just for being different? Convolutions of baseball practices and worried prayers and trying to ignore the media and wondering what really drove Trey away from his best friend Kevin (the pastor’s son) … as the trial and baseball playoffs loom just ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just an accident, Dad didn’t mean to kill him. What happened to our bargain, God? Braden just wants to pitch his high school team to the state Finals again and get drafted for a pro baseball team. But he hadn’t considered that his radio talk-show dad would be jailed for running over the Mexican-American cop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[90,148,22,7,75,105,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,44,43,107,322,187,49,193,15,206,9,21,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-baseball","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-homosexuality","tag-latinx","tag-lgbtq","tag-memories","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7560"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11372,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions\/11372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOr his long-gone big brother would come back to keep Braden out of foster care…
\nOr that he could be called as a witness in Dad’s trial…
\nOr having to face the cop’s nephew on the ballfield…<\/p>\n
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nWhy doesn’t anyone talk about Braden’s mom leaving when he was a baby?
\nCan Dad’s lawyer really suggest what he should say at Dad’s trial?<\/p>\n