books I've read

Anne Hawn's books

Who Moved My Cheese?
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
Just One Damned Thing After Another
The Vanishing
Exercises in Knitting
The Good Dream
The Very Best of Edgar Allan Poe
The Chosen
BT-Kids' Knits
Talking God
The Professor
The Christmas Files
The Finisher
Home Decor for 18-Inch Dolls: Create 10 Room Settings with Furniture and 15 Outfits with Accessories
Dracula and Other Stories
A New Song
Christy
All Quiet on the Western Front
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents


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The Help
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Night Circus
The Golden Compass
11/22/63
The Little Lady Agency
Catch-22
The Good Father
A Discovery of Witches
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
A Christmas Carol
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Color Purple
Matched
Cloud Atlas
The Princess Bride
The Catcher in the Rye


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Monday, April 28, 2014

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (Theodore Boone, #1)

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (Theodore Boone, #1)Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I am reading this to use in a homeschool lesson.  It is a great book to introduce kids to the legal system and to explore the difference between justice and the law.

Theodore Boone is the son of two lawyers; his mother is a divorce lawyer and his father is a real estate lawyer.  Theo's goal i to becomes a trail lawyer.  He is known in his school as being a fair and honest kid who can often help his classmates find out what to do when a dog gets out, or a friend is in trouble.  He knows all the lawyers in town and is able to steer kids to the correct person to handle their cases.

When a man is on trial for the murder of his wife, Theo arranges for his Government class to attend the another person who has vital information about the trial.  The problem is that the witness can not testify.

I think the solution presented is very good and will help kids understand the complexity of the law, but I felt the book ended rather abruptly.  It could have benefited from an epilogue.


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