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Downing, Wick. The trials of Kate Hope.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)

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 ...

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