Scene of the Crime - Hardcover

Rose, Malcolm

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0753461102 ISBN 13: 9780753461105

Publisher: Kingfisher, 2008

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A dead body in a railroad yard, a teenager’s diary, security-camera footage, maps, interviews, and forensic evidence... does it all add up to murder? And more importantly, is Amanda, the diary’s author, the prime suspect or is there another killer on the loose? The reader becomes the forensic investigator in this innovative, interactive whodunit that’s full of real science and packed with eye-popping artwork by one of today’s sharpest graphic illustrators.

As the mystery unfolds, readers look for clues hiding on multiple levels within the story and check their results against the Crime File, which contains the investigating team’s notes on the case. As they progress deeper and deeper into the book, they get closer to uncovering the truth.

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About the Author:

Malcolm Rose is the author of more than twenty-five novels for young adults. A former professor of chemistry, he is a well-known crime and thriller
writer. Rose has won many awards over the years, including the Angus Book Award for Tunnel Vision and the Lancashire Book of the Year Award for Plague. His first book in the Traces series, Framed!, was selected as a 2006
Best International Book by the International Reading Association.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5–8—A detective investigates a homicide in which the victim may have had a problem with a local middle schooler. Spreads covering one aspect of the investigation, such as "Sealing the Scene" and "Police Lineup," are comprised of vignettes and realistic computer-generated images that take up most of the space. Forensic and police procedures are covered thoroughly. "Fact File" text boxes providing supplemental clues are found within most chapters. Questions testing readers' detective skills appear intermittently along the bottom of the pages and refer to the "Crime File," which is appended in the form of a notebook, as is a short diary belonging to a person involved with the murder. Some answers appear on more than one sheet in the "Crime File" so it's important that readers not skip ahead. The premise of the story and its vocabulary make it suitable for middle schoolers, but they might be turned off by the picture-book format. While the plot is similar to an episode of Law and Order, the concept is lost in translation.—Lori A. Guenthner, Baltimore County Public Library, Randallstown, MD
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