"Raintree Freestyle" is a new, eye-catching range of colourful non-fiction books for the less able and reluctant reader, aged between 11 and 15 years. Designed for students with a reading age of 11 and 13 years old, these high interest books will enable readers to encounter curriculum-linked topics at an appropriate reading level. "A Painful History of Crime" takes a look at the world of the criminal, from ancient civilisations right up to modern times. The series includes stories about differen...
Juvenile Crime (Global Viewpoints (Hardcover)) (Global Viewpoints)
Violence in Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Orange (Social Issues in Literature)
Wildness in Jack London's the Call of the Wild (Social Issues in Literature)
The World Trade Center Bombing (American Disasters)
by Victoria Sherrow
Details the events surrounding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center as well as the investigation and trial of those responsible for the terrorist attack.
¿qué Es La Corte Suprema? (Mi Primera Guia Acerca del Gobierno)
by Nancy Harris
Gangs (Opposing Viewpoints (Paperback)) (Opposing Viewpoints (Library))
Keeping Youth Out Of Prison
by Esq Clara Hunter-King and Clara Hunter-King
Not every criminal uses force, but is the white-collar criminal any less deserving of punishment?
When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle. Then everything changed. Her police officer father, John, was driving to work when someone levelled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed left him clinging to life, yet he managed to write down the name of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. John Busby was scheduled to testify in an upcoming trial against the family of a local criminal with rumoured mob connections. It bec...
Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A legal historian recounts the influential life of women's rights activist Belva Lockwood, the first woman to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century’s most surprising and accomplished advocates for women’s rights. As Norgren shows, Lockwood was fearless in confront...