Kids’ Book List

 

Weise, Jim. 1996. DETECTIVE SCIENCE. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.  ISBN: 0-471-11980-6 

Bowers, Vivien. 1997. CRIMESCIENCE – HOW INVESTIGATORS USE SCIENCE TO TRACK DOWN THE BAD GUYS. Toronto, Owl Books.  ISBN: 1-895688-69-8 

Donkin, Andrew. 2001. CRIME BUSTERS. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN: 0-7894-7882-X

 

Fridell, Ron. 2000. SOLVING CRIMES – PIONEERS OF FORENSIC SCIENCE. Franklin Watts/Grolier Publishing.  ISBN: 0-531-11721-9

 

Fridell, Ron. 2001. DNA Fingerprinting: The Ulitmate Identity. Franklin Watts.  ISBN: 0-531-11858-4

 

Gardner, Robert. 1992. CRIME LAB 101 – EXPERIMENTS IN CRIME DETECTION. New York, Walker and Company.  ISBN: 0-8027-7420-2P

 

Jones, Charlotte Foltz. 1997Fingerprints and Talking Bones - How Real-Life Crimes are Solved. New York, Delacorte Press.  ISBN:0-385-32299-2

 

Jackson, Donna M. 1996.  The Bone Detectives - How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead. Boston, Little, Brown and Company.   ISBN: 0-316-82935-8

 

Jackson, Donna M. 2002. The WILDLIFE DETECTIVES.    

Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: 0-61819683-8       

 

Lane, Brian. 2000. CRIME AND DETECTION. Dorling Kindersley - Eyewitness Books. ISBN: 0-7894-5882-9

 

Owen, David. 2002. POLICE LAB- HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE TRACKS DOWN AND CONVICTS CRIMINALS. Firefly Books. ISBN: 1-55297-619-X

 

Pentland, Peter. 2003. Forensic Science (Science & Scientists series). Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN:  0-7910-7010-7

 

Rainis, Kenneth. 2000. CRIME SOLVING SCIENCE PROJECTS – FORENSIC SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS. Enslow Publishers, Inc.  ISBN: 0-7660-1289-1

 

Silvestein, Herma. 1996. Threads of Evidence – Using Forensic Science To Solve Crimes. Twenty-First Century Books.  ISBN: 0-8050-4370-5 

Walker, Pam & Wood, Elaine. 2002. CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONS: REAL-LIFE SCIENCE LABS FOR GRADES 6-12. John Wiley&Sons. ISBN: 0787966304 

Levine, Shar and Johnstone, Leslie. 1996. THE MICROSCOPE BOOK. New York, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.  ISBN: 0-8069-4899-

 

American Academy of Forensic Sciences  career brochure- So You Want to Be a Forensic Scientist!

http://www.aafs.org/choosing-career

 

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