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Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA
Bridget Heos - Balzer + Bray Format: Print book
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Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics.Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like... |
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
DASHKA SLATER - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they... |
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Sadie
COURTNEY SUMMERS - Wednesday Books Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller! An Edgar Award Winner! A BOOKLIST Top 10 YA Book for Adult Readers One of the Best YA Novels of 2018 by Publishers WeeklyOne of B&N Teen Blog's Best YA Books of 2018Bustle's Best Young Adult Books of 2018Good Morning America's... |
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century
Sarah Elizabeth Miller - Schwartz & Wade Books Format: Print book
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Here's middle-grade nonfiction that reads like a thriller. With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what... |
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Karen Blumenthal - Square Fish Format: Paperback
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It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off -- when a Constitutional Amendment banning the sale... |
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Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime
Candace Fleming - Anne Schwartz Books Format: Hardcover
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How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime... |
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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson - Delacorte Press Format: Hardcover
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In this young adult adaptation of the acclaimed bestselling Just Mercy, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so," Bryan Stevenson delves deep into the broken U.S. justice system, detailing from his personal... |
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Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend
Karen Blumenthal - Viking Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious--and celebrated--outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way.Bonnie and Clyde: we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop culture references,... |
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson - Delacorte Press Format: Paperback
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Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling... |
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Deep Water
Katherine Nichols - Simon Pulse Format: Paperback
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Real stories. Real teens. Real crimes. A group of teens traffic drugs between Mexico and California in this start to the brand-new Simon True series.It's 1971 in Coronado, a small southern California beach town. For seventeen-year-old Eddie Otero, a skilled waterman and avid surfer,... |
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Monster: A Graphic Novel
Guy A Sims - Amistad Press Format: Hardcover
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A stunning black-and-white graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers's Michael L. Printz Award winner and New York Times bestseller Monster, adapted by Guy Sims and illustrated by Dawud AnyabwileMonster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story about Steve Harmon,... |
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One Cut
Eve Porinchak - Simon Pulse Format: Paperback
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Real stories. Real teens. Real crimes. A backyard brawl turned media circus filled with gang accusations turns a small, quiet town upside down in this second book in the new Simon True series.On May 22, 1995 at 7 p.m. sixteen-year-old Jimmy Farris and seventeen-year-old Mike McLoren were... |
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Hole in My Life
Jack Gantos - Square Fish; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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Becoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin... |
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Truly Devious: A Mystery
Maureen Johnson - Katherine Tegen Books Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart.Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists.... |
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The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past
Elizabeth A. Murray - Twenty-First Century Books TM Format: Library Binding
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Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where -- rather than reforming the children in their care -- school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed... |
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Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi - Balzer Bray Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The story that I thought... |
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Grand Theft Horse
G NERI - Lee & Low Books Format: Hardcover
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Gail Ruffu was a rookie trainer known for her unconventional methods and ability to handle dangerous horses. When she became part owner of an untamed thoroughbred named Urgent Envoy, everything changed. After Urgent Envoy showed real promise, her co-owners forced Gail to speed up training... |
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Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco - jimmy patterson Format: Hardcover
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter,... |
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A Study in Charlotte
Brittany Cavallaro - Katherine Tegen Books Format: Print book
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The first book in a witty, suspenseful new trilogy about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This clever page-turner will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter.Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes;... |
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I Hunt Killers
Barry Lyga - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field.Except for the body.Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer, some might say.But hes also the son of the worlds most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops... |
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