1. The Abduction
By John Grisham

2. AUTHOR JOHN GRISHAM BORN: February 8th 1955 FAMOUS BOOK: The Firm
AWARDS: Galaxy British Book Award

3. CHARACTERS Theodore Boone April Finnemore
April’s mother ( May Finnemore) & April’s father ( Tom Finnemore)
Theo’s mother ( Marcella Boone) & Theo’s father ( Woods Boone)
Ike
Jack Leeper
Judge Jolly ( St. Nick)
Sergeant Bolick

4. THE SETTING
Strattenburg
April’s house
The Bridge ( pg64)
The court

5. THE PLOT (please click 3 times)
Theo’s best friend April disappears in the middle of the night from her bedroom, and nobody knows where she is. The police confirmed that there was an kidnapping, and Theo is called over to April’s house to talk with the police.
That night, right before April disappeared, Theo talked to her on the phone like always, and she told him things that he promised not to repeat.
The police soon find a suspect of the abduction…

6. THE GENRE
Fiction
Mystery

7. THE THEME
Conflict with authority
Questioning authority
Faith

8. CHARACTER RELATIONS
I can relate to Theo’s willingness to try to help get his best friend back.
I can’t relate to April, she had a miserable home life with neglecting parents.

9. EXCERPT(PG9)
The truth was that Mrs. Finnemore had not been home for the past two nights. April had been living alone, terrified, with all the doors and windows locked as tightly as possible; with a chair jammed against her bedroom door; with the phone close and ready to dial 911, and no one in the world to talk to but Theodore Boone, who had vowed not to tell a soul. Her father was out of town with his band. Her mother was taking pills and losing her mind.