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    Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History's Mysteries

    By Elizabeth MacLeod

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    About this ebook

    How did King Tut really die?

    The mystery of the young pharaoh’s death is only one of the puzzles that modern science has helped solve. Thanks to forensics—the science of examining physical evidence—we now know that King Tut died of malaria. We also know that stomach cancer, and not arsenic as suspected, killed Napoleon.

    Seven intriguing stories about historical royal figures whose demise was suspicious, and hard scientific facts about crime-solving techniques make each event seem like an episode of CSI rather than a history lesson.

    Kids will be fascinated to find out how scientists use autopsy results, DNA testing, bone fragments, and even insects to determine the cause of death.

    At times a gripping whodunit, at others an exercise in deductive reasoning, this book will be hard to put down for any kids who love mysteries, murder, and suspense.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnick Press
    Release dateMar 5, 2013
    ISBN9781554515226
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    Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History's Mysteries
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    Elizabeth MacLeod

    Elizabeth MacLeod has written more than 70 biographies, picture books, cookbooks and other nonfiction books. Dinosaurs, royal murder, horses that changed history, forensic science—she’s written about them all. Liz has also won many awards for her writing, including the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile or Young Adult Crime Book and Children’s Choice awards across the country, including the Hackmatack, Red Cedar, Red Maple and Silver Birch. She lives in Toronto.

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    • 3/5
      Bones Never Lie by Elizabeth MacLeod is a tween / young adult introduction to the science and technology of forensics. Well, sort of.Rather than focusing on the achievements made in the field, the book presents the mini-biographies of various famous dead leaders. So there's Tutankhamen, Napoleon, and so forth.While the how did they die question is interested, it's not the forensics that was promised. A better book on both accounts is How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg.
    • 4/5
      BONES NEVER LIE is an interesting mix of 5th/6th grade "ick" appeal, with a writing style that will challenge readers (in a good way) rather than talk down to them. The book is filled with pictures, boxed text and margin notes. Each of the seven chapters covers one investigation, focusing on a specific mystery, and the technique (autopsy, archeology, DNA etc) used to investigate. Chapters are divided into sections such as The Mystery, The History, The Clues and The Suspects, making for manageable chunks of information. Some "cases" come to more of a conclusion than others -- for example, Anastasia Romanov is declared with certainty to have died with her family in 1918, while the forensic investigation into the death of Mayan Kan Maax and his household is inconclusive at this point.This would be a great choice for a middle schooler with an interest in science (or gory details). The author takes some liberty with setting a scene and imagining what might have happened but she indicates in her writing when she is musing ("Had he rushed through his foul-smelling job and missed a vital symptom or clue?" p. 32) versus presenting research. Easy to recommend for readers on into high school, if they want a readable introduction to forensic techniques.About me: I'm a middle school/high school librarian.How I got this book: sent to me by the publisher
    • 2/5
      Good information but delivered in an elementary style. Felt like I was reading a little golden book complete with random illustrations along the margins of each page. I only managed to make it through the first story before succumbing to the cutsyness. Leave this for the younger kids.