Karen's Reviews > The Scandal

Catching up…

This is the last book in the Theodore Boone series. I had “co-read” the first one, “Kid Lawyer,” with my grandson. Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
When this one was donated to my Little Free Library Shed, I decided to go ahead and read it.

In this story, we find Teddy ready to graduate 8th grade and in the midst of taking a series of standardized tests. When the results come back mixed for him and his friend April, she tells him it is because teachers had changed the scoring because of pressure from the district. Because this affected her, she decides to do something about it. This creates headlines, and now teachers are accused of cheating and await their punishment.

There is also a side story in which Teddy helps a classmate who is concerned about his father’s actions against his mother and himself.

Since Teddy is considered a “teen lawyer” there is an expectation for lawyering to occur, as much as can be expected of a 13-year-old who isn’t a lawyer, but his parents are. With a courthouse scene, young readers will get a sense of what does take place in addressing these key issues of what happens when there is wrongdoing. Could there have been more substance in the story? Yes. But it still was fun to visit the idea of a young boy motivated to help fellow classmates because of the positive influence from his parents.