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Downing, Wick. The trials of Kate Hope
Kliatt, May, 2008 by Myrna Marler
DOWNING, Wick. The trials of Kate Hope. Houghton Mifflin. 331p. c2008. 978-0-618-89133-7. $16.00. JS
The reader must buy into the premise that at the age of 14 a girl who is bright but not necessarily brilliant can be a certified, practicing, and competent lawyer in Denver, Colorado in 1973. (The author explains how this could possibly happen in an Author's Note, but even then, it's a stretch.) Kate Hope has an overprotective mother because her father and brother were killed some years before in a car crash. Kate has a boyfriend she orders around and hires as her private investigator (and who has unrealized possibilities as a love interest, maybe in the sequel), and a wily old lawyer grandfather who has tutored and sponsored her success. However, his health is now failing and Kate must operate more and more on her own, even though she has a tricky dog bite case coming up in which it is imperative that she clear the dog's name and save its life. Her opponents are both evil and determined; her witnesses are unreliable; and she is inexperienced. However, her grandfather's voice rings mysteriously in her ear during the trial (even though he's in a coma) and in the end, right prevails. Entertaining; possibly educational; a bit predictable though the situation is unusual. Myrna Marler, Assoc. Prof. of English, BYU, Laie, HI
J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers.
S--Recommended for senior high school students.
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