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Available
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Publication
Puffin Books (Penguin Group)
Pages
217
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.
Description
Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes are higher than ever.
When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, 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 investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, 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 investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
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Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
217 p.; 7.75 inches
ISBN
9780142421376
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Lexile
830L
User reviews
LibraryThing member burnit99
Theodore Boone's best friend, April, whose parents are estranged and dysfunctional, has disappeared from her bedroom in the dead of night. When the police are unable to make any headway and April is feared dead, Theo puts his own detective skills to the task. A good, semi-suspenseful book for
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LibraryThing member BobH1
Grisham is always a quick read. This one is light as well. I'm not quite sure of the target audience, it's too superficial for an adult read and not enough action for a child to be entertained. I'm thankful I didn't pay full price, I was entertained but for long enough and without any real
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LibraryThing member herdingcats
This is the second book that John Grisham has written about Theodore Boone who is a 13 year old son of two lawyers. Theodore is a detective/lawyer himself who wants to be a judge because "In what other job can an entire room of people, regardless of their age, job or education, be required to stand
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in solemn respect as you enter the room? Theo could think of only three - queen of England, president of the United States, and judge." In this book, Theodore's friend April has disappeared and is presumed to have been kidnapped by her uncle who had been her pen pal and who had recently escaped from prison. The book is well written and exciting and I was laughing out loud at the scene with the parrot in Animal Court. I loved the book and thought it was fantastic! Show Less
LibraryThing member Nebraska_Girl1971
I read this book with my 11 year old nephew. It was a great book to read and discuss together.
LibraryThing member curlycurrie
This is my first outing with a John Grisham novel though I am familiar with his stories form their film adaptations. I think that may not have been the best novel fo his to start with as I felt it lacked depth and intrigue. I won't give up and will try a more adult novel of John Grishams.
LibraryThing member AudreyFord
Theodore Boone: The Abduction is a book about how a young boy searches for his friend who has mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night. It is up to Theo to find her kidnapper or a reason why she is missing. His friend had dysfunctional parents who did not seem to care about her at all.
This book could be used in class for several reasons. One being that no matter how young or small you may be, that does not mean you can limit yourself to what you can do. Theo is only a thirteen year old boy, but because of great determination, he is able to complete anything he puts his mind to. This book is also good for teaching students how to communicate. They should always let their parents or friends know where they are at all times. Because of lack of communication, terrible things happen in the book. So it is always important to let someone know where you are at all times.
I really liked this book because it was an easy read and it also kept me wondering what was going to happen next. I also really liked it because it was not your average mystery book. Usually detective books have protagonists who are older teens or even adults. But in this book you have a thirteen year old boy doing the work of grown men and women.
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Her father was always on the road and her mother would leave her at her house alone for days at a time. The police have one suspect in mind, but was he really the kidnapper? If not, who could it be? Was Theo's friend still alive? It is all up to Theo to find his friend and return her home safely. This book could be used in class for several reasons. One being that no matter how young or small you may be, that does not mean you can limit yourself to what you can do. Theo is only a thirteen year old boy, but because of great determination, he is able to complete anything he puts his mind to. This book is also good for teaching students how to communicate. They should always let their parents or friends know where they are at all times. Because of lack of communication, terrible things happen in the book. So it is always important to let someone know where you are at all times.
I really liked this book because it was an easy read and it also kept me wondering what was going to happen next. I also really liked it because it was not your average mystery book. Usually detective books have protagonists who are older teens or even adults. But in this book you have a thirteen year old boy doing the work of grown men and women.
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LibraryThing member TeamDewey
There wasn't much in the way of courtroom/legal procedure in this installment except for a couple unrelated events thrown in. More about police work and tracking down a kid without much suspense.
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This is not something I would have read on my own. Theodore's best friend April disappears one night and the whole town is up in arms. They fear she has been kidnapped and possibly murdered. Theodore and his friends run a much wider investigation then the police do and eventually turn up April.
LibraryThing member CathyShelton
Very good book and a quick read. Great follow up story to the first Theodore Boone book.
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This is not something I would have read on my own. Theodore's best friend April disappears one night and the whole town is up in arms. They fear she has been kidnapped and possibly murdered. Theodore and his friends run a much wider investigation then the police do and eventually turn up April.
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This is not something I would have read on my own. Theodore's best friend April disappears one night and the whole town is up in arms. They fear she has been kidnapped and possibly murdered. Theodore and his friends run a much wider investigation then the police do and eventually turn up April.
LibraryThing member lkmuir
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.
LibraryThing member Hellen0
Scroll down for the review in English.
Me gustó el primer libro, pero El Secuestro fue una gran decepción y no se lo recomendaría a nadie, ni siquiera a niños. Lo mejor que puede decir de él es que fue corto y rápido.
El comportamiento de Theo es… confuso. Se comporta a veces como un adulto,
Toda la investigación policial es un desastre. No dice mucho de la policía de la ciudad el que un par de chicos de trece años encuentren a uno de los sospechosos más obvios, cuando la policía ni siquiera consideró que esa persona era lo suficientemente importante para investigarla. Me suele gustar esta clase de libros de investigaciones juveniles, pero éste fue demasiado absurdo.
No odié este libro y, dado que la biblioteca tiene la serie entera y que me gustó el primer libro, voy a darle una oportunidad al tercero, pero puede que no termine la serie si el tercer libro también me decepciona.
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I liked the first book, but The Abduction was a huge disappointment and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, not even kids. The best thing that I can say about it is that it was short and fast.
Theo's behaviour is... confusing. He behaves like an adult sometimes, but then, on the next page, he's behaving like a toddler who didn't get what he wanted. He’s supposed to be thirteen, not five! That some people, even adults, behave like children sometimes is fine, but I found this lack of consistency too extreme and it happened too often to be believable. Also, he's too arrogant to be likeable. I think he was much more likable in the first book. Maybe it's that his cases in the first book were much clearer, so it was easier to side with him. There's a scene in this book where he defends a parrot, who is causing a lot of trouble to a riding school because he's scaring the horses. I got the impression that the reader is supposed to side with Theo because the whole situation is treated like a joke where Theo wins, but it bothered me that nobody, not even the adults in the room, realised how serious the situation could have been. A young girl got a broken arm because the parrot scared a horse, but she could have ended up with very severe injuries.
The whole police investigation is a mess. It doesn't say much of the town's police if a couple of thirteen year olds can find one of the obvious suspects when the police didn't even consider that person important enough to be investigated. I usually like this kind of kid investigation books, but this one was just too absurd.
I didn't hate this book and, as the library has the whole series and I liked the first book, I am going to give the third one a chance, but I may not finish the series if the third book disappoints me as well.
Me gustó el primer libro, pero El Secuestro fue una gran decepción y no se lo recomendaría a nadie, ni siquiera a niños. Lo mejor que puede decir de él es que fue corto y rápido.
El comportamiento de Theo es… confuso. Se comporta a veces como un adulto,
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pero luego, en la página siguiente, se está comportando como un bebé que no ha conseguido lo que quería. ¡Se supone que tiene trece años, no cinco! El que algunas personas, incluso adultos, se comporten como niños a veces es aceptable, pero está falta de consistencia me pareció demasiado extrema y pasaba demasiado a menudo para ser creíble. Además, es demasiado arrogante para ser agradable. Creo que era mucho más agradable en el primer libro. Puede que sea porque sus casos eran mucho más claros en el primer libro, así que era más fácil estar de su parte. Hay una escena en este libro, en la que defiende a un loro que está causándole muchos problemas a una escuela de equitación, porque está asustando a los caballos. Me dio la impresión que el lector debe ponerse del lado de Theo, porque se trata toda la situación como si fuera un chiste en el que Theo gana, pero me molestó que nadie, ni siquiera los adultos en la sala, se diera cuenta de cómo de seria podría haber llegado a ser la situación. Una niña se rompió un brazo porque el loro asustó al caballo, pero podría haber acabado con lesiones más serias.Toda la investigación policial es un desastre. No dice mucho de la policía de la ciudad el que un par de chicos de trece años encuentren a uno de los sospechosos más obvios, cuando la policía ni siquiera consideró que esa persona era lo suficientemente importante para investigarla. Me suele gustar esta clase de libros de investigaciones juveniles, pero éste fue demasiado absurdo.
No odié este libro y, dado que la biblioteca tiene la serie entera y que me gustó el primer libro, voy a darle una oportunidad al tercero, pero puede que no termine la serie si el tercer libro también me decepciona.
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I liked the first book, but The Abduction was a huge disappointment and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, not even kids. The best thing that I can say about it is that it was short and fast.
Theo's behaviour is... confusing. He behaves like an adult sometimes, but then, on the next page, he's behaving like a toddler who didn't get what he wanted. He’s supposed to be thirteen, not five! That some people, even adults, behave like children sometimes is fine, but I found this lack of consistency too extreme and it happened too often to be believable. Also, he's too arrogant to be likeable. I think he was much more likable in the first book. Maybe it's that his cases in the first book were much clearer, so it was easier to side with him. There's a scene in this book where he defends a parrot, who is causing a lot of trouble to a riding school because he's scaring the horses. I got the impression that the reader is supposed to side with Theo because the whole situation is treated like a joke where Theo wins, but it bothered me that nobody, not even the adults in the room, realised how serious the situation could have been. A young girl got a broken arm because the parrot scared a horse, but she could have ended up with very severe injuries.
The whole police investigation is a mess. It doesn't say much of the town's police if a couple of thirteen year olds can find one of the obvious suspects when the police didn't even consider that person important enough to be investigated. I usually like this kind of kid investigation books, but this one was just too absurd.
I didn't hate this book and, as the library has the whole series and I liked the first book, I am going to give the third one a chance, but I may not finish the series if the third book disappoints me as well.
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LibraryThing member Andrew-theQM
3.5 Stars. This is an enjoyable book and I am enjoying the series. Very light and easy reading. However I do feel the Mickey Bolitar books by Harlan Coben has put these books in the shade. A good read for children aged between 10 and 14 I feel. I will continue with the series.
LibraryThing member librisissimo
I found the mystery slight (even for a juvenile), the characters uncaptivating, and the narrative pedestrian.
The protagonist did things I do not credit (having raised five boys and being active in scouting), and the mystery itself was unsatisfying.
The protagonist did things I do not credit (having raised five boys and being active in scouting), and the mystery itself was unsatisfying.
LibraryThing member laytonwoman3rd
I think Theo Boone, Kid Lawyer (or as the covers of the paperbacks have it "Half the Man, Twice the Lawyer") is my Flavia de Luce. I didn't take as well to Flavia's personality as others have, but Grisham's 13-year-old legal fanatic is just my cup of tea. In this one, Theo's good friend April has
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disappeared in the middle of the night, and he was the last one to speak to her. He knows something about her troubled home life that could be important, but he promised April he wouldn't tell anyone...so how can he help find her without betraying her confidence? Lots of irresponsible adult behavior gives Theo a chance to do what the police are unable to manage...track down April's ne'er-do-well Dad and figure out what really happened to her. Show Less
LibraryThing member True54Blue
I finished this book thinking that it was written by a different author than the first volume in the series. It had the feel of the 39 Clues where each book is written by a different author and the continuity is a little rough between volumes. This had the same feel although perhaps Grisham wrote
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them at the same time and therefore didn't know exactly where his characters were headed before the second volume started. On the whole I wasn't impressed although it still rates three stars. Show Less
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This is not something I would have read on my own. Theodore's best friend April disappears one night and the whole town is up in arms. They fear she has been kidnapped and possibly murdered. Theodore and his friends run a much wider investigation then the police do and eventually turn up April.
LibraryThing member sunnydrk
OK. Hard to get into
Awards
Soaring Eagle Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
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J4B.Gri