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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Experience all the thrills and suspense of chasing down the world's highest-profile criminals. What does it take to catch a criminal? Not just any criminal, but one of the world's most wanted? In Outlaws, Spies, and Gangsters, Laura Scandiffio chronicles eight of history's most famous manhunts, from searches for drug dealers to dictators, hackers to henchmen. Discover the danger and intrigue behind these riveting stories of daring and perseverance....
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Scarlett and Browne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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"Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her wits - and never looking back. She's on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgment, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett's used to being chased...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Forensic science––the preparation of scientific evidence to be presented in court––is an increasingly valuable aspect of the investigation of crime. Although rare commentaries on the subject date back many centuries, it is only over the last 200 years that a systematic approach has been made––an approach that has accelerated rapidly in the past half-century. The detection and analysis of poisons was the first forensic technique to be developed...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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, they are remembered mostly for their storied romance and tragic deaths. But what was life really like for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in the early 1930s? How did two dirt-poor teens from west Texas morph from vicious outlaws to legendary couple? And why? Award-winning author Karen Blumenthal devoted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
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Presents the history of the group of spies, Holocaust survivors, and lawyers who pursued Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal, for fifteen years in order to bring him to justice for his leadership role in the killing of thousands of Jews during World War II.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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A Gallup poll reported in September 2013 that 80 percent of Americans blamed mass shootings on a failure of the mental health system to identify individuals who are a danger to others. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes, and full-color illustrations this title examines What Are the Origins of Concerns About Mental Illness and Crime? How Strong Is the Link Between Mental Illness and Crime? What Role Does Substance Abuse Play in Mental...
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English
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A history of the powerful Potawatomi tribe. They were persistent enemies of the Miamis. Pictures and biograpies of their leading chiefs, marks their trails, locates their chief villages, and tells the story of many events that much to do with American history.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
As long as there have been heroes, there have been villains. These wicked women and murderous men betrayed their family and friends, and destroyed entire empires. Meet the traitors, assassins, cowards, and tyrants who make history interesting.
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School of secrets volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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CJ, the daughter of Captain James Hook, sneaks out of Auradon Prep with her best friend to search for treasure.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. "Count Victor Lustig," moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A "con" artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city's most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 840L
Language
English
Description
As a medical student in Edinburgh, you will soon find out why you shouldn't be friends with a body snatcher. You are about to experience the darker side of science, so listen to the top ten tips from experts: guard the graves of your loved ones; keep an eye on your lecturer, Dr. Knox; always ask where your corpses came from; and don't rent a room from Burke and Hare--they will do anything to get their hands on a fresh body.
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