Acclaimed writer John Grisham upends readers’ expectations ... eclipsing even his sales (and those of almost any other book or series in history). Theodore Boone is a kid with two lawyers ...

Grisham, a bestseller-list fixture with his legal thrillers, makes his children's book debut with a series opener that lacks thrills. The only child of two attorneys, Theo Boone is an endearing ...

In his young-adult series, Theodore Boone ... s a great writer. John Evans, the proprietor of Lemuria Books in Jackson, Miss., another of the independent bookstores Grisham has helped keep ...