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Zusatztext Contemporary lit for young readers has its icons: Harry Potter! Percy Jackson! Artemis Fowl. Make way for the new kid on the block. Informationen zum Autor John Grisham Klappentext Theodore Boone is a 13-year-old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers and he certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But when he is attacked whilst doing his homework, his bike is vandalised, and worst of all, he's framed for a robbery, Theo sets off on a race against time to find the real felon and clear his name in court. The latest high-intensity legal drama, following on from the bestselling "Theodore Boone" and "Theodore Boone: The Abduction". Zusammenfassung Innocence is not always the best defence.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Beginning with
The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published at least one #1 bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Ten have been adapted to film, including
The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and
A Time To Kill. His
Theodore Boone series for young readers is now in development at Netflix. An avid sports fan, he has written two novels about football, one about baseball, and in 2021 he published
Sooley, a story set in the world of college basketball. His lone work of non-fiction,
The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries.
He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize For Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award For Fiction.
When he's not writing, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his recent fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice systems.
A graduate of Mississippi State University and Ole Miss Law School, he lives on a farm in central Virginia, around the corner from the youth baseball complex he built in 1996. He still serves as its Commissioner.
Zusammenfassung
Innocence is not always the best defence.
