Edition language: English
Literary awards: Agatha Award Nominee for Best Children Young Adult (2010)
Published by Puffin (2011) Paperback Edition
A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won’t stop until justice is served.
In the small city of
Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen
years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge,
policeman, court clerk—and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a
great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. He likes Government class and Spanish class and he is pretty good in Spanish than any average eight grader in his class. One day, there was a trial in the city and the Government class plan to attend this trial as an education of the law and government system. Theo is given task to arrange seats for the class since the trial is somewhat rare for the people of the city and everyone will try to attend this trial. This trial is held for a murder case, and Theo which dreams of being a trial lawyer tries (not so hard because the judge, Judge Gantry is his friend) to convince the judge to prepare the seats for the class.