Converting Kate

A tender novel that explores what happens when a girl outgrows her religion and starts searching for something else to believe in.

Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church—it influenced everything in her life from her homeschooling to her ugly, handmade clothes. But ever since the death of her nonreligious father, Kate has suspected that there’s more to life than memorizing scripture.

Taking advantage of a move to a new town, Kate—to her devout mother’s horror—quits the Holy Divine. She replaces it with the cross-country team at her public school, her father’s beloved book collection, and services at a traditional Christian church. But these new diversions don’t bring all the answers she’s looking for. And as Kate struggles to come to terms with her father’s death and her mother’s blind allegiance to the Holy Divine, she discovers there’s a big different between religion and faith—and that the two don’t always go hand in hand