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1) The scandal
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blodded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no on, not even Theo Boone--who knows April better than anyone--has answers. As fear ripples through his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up to Theo to use his legal knowledge and investigate skills to chase down the truth and save April.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Theo has been worried about his good friend Woody Lambert. Woody is struggling at school and making bad choices. But when Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to armed robbery--Theo knows he is innocent. Racing the clock while Woody sits in jail, Theo will do everything in his power to help his friend and save Woody from an unforgiving system where justice is not equal for all.
5) The chamber
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Desde hace casi un siglo, Biloxi es conocida por sus playas, complejos tu̕rsticos e industria pesquera. Pero tambǐn tiene un lado oscuro. Esta ciudad de Mississippi es adèms famosa por el crimen y la corrupc̤in: desde el juego, la prostituc̤in y el contrabando hasta el narcot̀rfico y los asesinatos a manos de sicarios. Un pequęo grupo controla la actividad criminal y se rumorea que muchos de ellos son miembros de la mafia del sur, conocida...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
He has waited for this moment. He has planned his every move. He has made it onto the jury in the most explosive trial of the century. Now the verdict belongs to him. They are at the center of a multimillion dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now that the jury must make a decision in the most...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
9) The activist
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Theodore Boone's friend, Hardie Quinn, is about to have his family home bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Hardie is not the only one affected, and there's very little anyone can do to stop the destruction ... until Theo joins the campaign to stop the road, and stumbles on a terrible secret about the developers.
10) A time to kill
Author
Series
Jake Brigance novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi.The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and...
12) Gray Mountain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
13) The summons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. But the family meeting does not take place. The judge dies too...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he...
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