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The Trials of Kate Hope

by Wick Downing · 2008

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It's 1973 in Denver, Colorado, and Kate Hope is fourteen years old. She's a normal teenage—she has a boy friend, who is kind of but not really a boyfriend. She has disagreements with her loving and slightly overprotective mom about how late she can come home (on her bicycle) and how short her skirts should be. Looking in a mirror makes Kate crazy, worrying about her curly hair, thick calves and less-than-curvy body. Kate Hope in an average teenage girl.

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Except, she's also a lawyer.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisColoradoColoradoMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adultchildrensmiddle grade
Length
medium · 336 pages

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