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- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes.
Puffin Books, 1995.
This is a collection of eight stories of the famous Sherlock Holmes. The
detective solves the mysteries behind crimes in Victorian London.
- Owen, David. Police Lab: How Forensic Science Tracks Down and
Convicts Criminals. Sagebrush, 2003.
This book describes current forensic methods and 20 real-life investigations. It
includes photographs and illustrations.
- Silverstein, Herma. Threads of evidence: Using Forensic Science to Solve
Crimes. Twenty First Century, 1996
Using recent popular cases, this book helps the student to better understand the
role of forensics in solving crimes.
- Wiese, Jim. Detective Science: 40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activities for Kids. Wiley, 1996.
This book uses a variety of forensic techniques that can be used at home to
solve crimes and mysteries.
- Yeats, Tabitha A. Forensics: Solving the Crime. Innovators Series No. 9.
2001.
Named to the “Best Books of 2001” list by The Center for Children’s Books,
“Forensics” examines crime solving through storytelling, and explaining
important scientific concepts along the way.
- Deductive Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning is the thought process used by detectives to assemble the
pieces of evidence in a crime and reach a logical conclusion. The game of Clue
is a good example of this method. There are a number of logic game books that
can be purchased to help develop this type of reasoning skill.
- Baker, Michael. Mind Benders. The Critical Thinking Company.
This series of books is for students Pre-K through high school. These books
help develop problem solving, reading comprehension and analytical skills
through reading a story with clues and identifying associations among the
characters, places and objects in the stories. There is software to accompany
the books; however, each can be used independently of the other.
- Flansburg, Scott. Math Magic for Your Kids: Hundreds of Games and
Exercises from the Human Calculator to Make Math Fun and Easy.
Though mostly focused on math, this book provides puzzles and riddles to
encourage students to think about problems using logic. It also includes
activities that incorporate writing into mathematics.
- Hall, Jody. Super Silly Mazes.
This book of mazoons (a combination of maze/cartoons) is fun from start to
finish. These silly mazes are both challenging and entertaining.
- Mandell, Muriel and Elise Chanowitz (Illustrator). Fantastic Book of Logic
Puzzles.
This book includes popular logic puzzles using magicians, ogres, dragons,
genies and wizards.
- Mandell, Muriel and Margaret C. Edmiston. The Wizard’s Book of Puzzles.
Help solve the Wizard's puzzles by proving your logical skills. You will figure
out how many anti-ogre potions he has to hand out and determine which
disguises each of five squires is wearing. These, plus many more challenges
are included in this book.
- Sukach, Jim and Lucy Corvino (Illustrator). Challenging Whodunit Puzzles:
Dr. Quicksolve’s Mini-Mysteries.
Dr. Quicksolve and his son Junior solve 50 crimes, including a murder case
where one suspect plays loud music while the other one is hearing-impaired.
Readers can also help select the correct heir to a millionaire's estate. Reading
carefully for clues is a must!
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