The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead - Softcover

Donna M. Jackson; Charlie Fellenbaum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316829617 ISBN 13: 9780316829618

Publisher: Megan Tingley, 2001

Synopsis

Explores the world of forensic anthropology and its applications in solving crimes.

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Review:

In 1987, a skeleton was turned up near a Boy Scout camp in Missouri. A forensic anthropologist was brought and, using clues from the skeleton and some decaying clothes found nearby, determined that the victim was a young Asian woman. From there, police where able to determine the identity first of the victim and then of her killer. Using the Missouri case as a jumping-off point, The Bone Detectives provides an introduction for young readers to the science of forensics. Written for curious readers who are approaching adolescence, this book is sure to appeal to the nearly universal interest that age group exhibits for the macabre and the horrible.

About the Author:

Donna M. Jackson is an award-winning author of many nonfiction books for young readers.  Her work includes The Bone Detectives, The Name Game and, most recently, The Elephant Scientist -- named a 2012 Robert F. Sibert Honor book, a 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book, and an NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade book. She lives with her husband, Charlie, and their family near the Colorado's Rocky Mountains.

About this edition

• Publisher: Megan Tingley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0316829617
• ISBN 13: 9780316829618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48