Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland / Sally M. Walker.
by Walker, Sally M.
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BookPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, c2009Description: 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0822571358.Subject(s): Forensic anthropology -- Juvenile literature | Forensic osteology -- Juvenile literature | Human remains (Archaeology) -- Virginia -- Jamestown -- Juvenile literature | Human remains (Archaeology) -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Juvenile literature | Jamestown (Va.) -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature | Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature | Anthropology | Forensic sciences | Human remains (Archaeology) | Jamestown (Va.) -- Antiquities | Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 614/.17 Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139) and index.
A grave mystery -- Who were you? -- Out of the grave -- The captain -- The body in the basement --The luxury of lead -- The lead-coffin people -- Expect the unexpected -- Remember me.
Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010
School Library Journal starred, February 2009
Booklist starred, February 2009
Book Links-starred, March 2009
Kirkus Starred, February 2009
Horn Book, October 2009
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), April 2009
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2009
Teacher Librarian, June 2009
Library Media Connection, October 2009
Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.
NC 1140 Lexile.
8.3
5-8 Follett Library Resources
Reading Counts RC 11.0 9.0
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