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2) House Rules
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
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Description
They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know...
5) DNA evidence
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief overview of how forensic scientists use DNA to solve crimes, and describes real-life cases in which DNA evidence has identified or exonerated criminals.
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Series
Forensic mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.
7) Forensics
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides an introduction to forensics, and looks at cases in which forensic dentistry, forensic ballistics, computer forensics, facial reconstruction, and fingerprinting were used to solve crimes.
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Series
Forensic mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When her ex-boyfriend starts stalking her, seventeen-year-old Cameryn must use her knowledge of forensic sciences to protect herself.
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
How are fingerprints, hair, and blood alike? Each can be traced to a specific person and can therefore be used as evidence in criminal investigations. Three stories of actual crimes solved using trace evidence are presented here in comic form. Includes overviews of how a crime is investigated and how trace evidence is analyzed.
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Visit a class where students blow mouthfuls of their own blood onto one another in order to better understand blood-spatter patterns. Attend a workshop studying the effects of temperature and humidity on the life cycle of maggots populating a corpse. Learn how much of someone's history of drug use can be detected in a single strand of hair. Wander the aisles at the annual conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, where booths display...
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Investigating two murders, the first of a nine-year-old Montreal girl and the second of a North Carolina teenager, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan delves into the world of motorcycle gangs.
Author
Series
Forensic mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with her long-missing mother.
15) Identification
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"An in-depth look at how crime scene investigators use evidence found at crime scenes to identify victims and suspects, employing real-life examples such as The Nightstalker case"--
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. This book draws on crime novelist McDermid's own interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists. Along the way, McDermid discovers...
18) Fatal voyage
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
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Tempe hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery and identification.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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Description
Edward Warren has been living in Thailand for six years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But when he learns that his dad lies comatose in a hospital, gravely injured in a car accident that also involved his younger sister Cara, he quickly returns to the United States. Luke is an animal conservationist who became famous after living with a wolf pack in the Canadian wild. It's impossible for his...