[Mara Posts: 504 Status: Offline WWW]

I'm looking for chapter books and middle grade novels with trials or mock trials in them. Preferably humorous. So far I have THE LEMONADE CRIME and . . . well, that is all I have.

[AnnH Posts: 1,516 Status: Offline I love to read and write! WWW]

POISON IVY by Amy Goldman Koss
DEVON DELANEY SHOULD TOTALLY KNOW BETTER by Lauren Barnholdt

[rab Posts: 686 Status: Offline WWW]

I can't think of any funny MG books with trials, only Walter Dean Myers' decidedly unfunny YA novel, MONSTER.

[JulieM Posts: 821 Status: Offline WWW]

...and To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Barbara Etlin Posts: 2,354 Status: Offline WWW]

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND has a humorous trial.

http://sabian.org/alice_in_wonderland11.php

[yellow_submarine Posts: 113 Status: Offline WWW]

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' has a trial near the start, although the books were arguably more YA than MG by that point (and it's not exactly humorous). Sorry I can't think of any better examples!

[Rebecca Kraft Rector Posts: 89 Status: Offline TRIA AND THE GREAT STAR RESCUE, Delacorte]

Wanted: Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars
Freddie the Detective by Brooks

Witch of Blackbird Pond by Spears (not funny)

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by Grisham (not funny)

I think there's one or two in the Encyclopedia Brown series.

Picture Book: The Judge by Zemach

Becky

[Mara Posts: 504 Status: Offline WWW]

Thank you!

[Hannah Posts: 315 Status: Offline WWW]

TRIAL BY JOURNAL by Kate Klise is hilarious! You know, if you're still looking, two months later.