victims of crimes

Chyna is witness to a brutal homicide and, in her efforts to escape, learns the identity of the killer's next intended victim. Although common sense tells her to run for her life, she is compelled to try and rescue the young girl targeted for murder.

Discusses the issue of violent crime and what a victim can do to recover from the trauma.

Discusses violent crime and its victims, including how to understand and help victims and how to reduce the risk of becoming one.

Tony Hope's dream that he and his twin brother, Mike, will someday appear together as players on a national basketball court is shattered when Mike is paralyzed in a shooting accident, but Tony decides to forge ahead and reach that goal for both of them. Includes reading comprehension and essay questions.

Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore, traveling with her cousin Kyla on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of Egypt, finds herself a reluctant detective when an imposter, a case of mistaken identity, death, and other disasters plague the journey.

Abbie Devereaux manages to escape the living horror of being kidnapped, but when she tries to return to her normal life, she finds that her memories of the recent past are oddly out of synch with reality, and the only way she can reclaim her life is to retrace her steps and relive the kidnapping.

Alex Gilbey, one of four students to discover the body of Rosie Duff, raped, stabbed, and left for dead in a cemetery, finds his life in danger twenty-five-years later when the case is reopened and two of the men who were with him that December night are mysteriously murdered.

Greg Manning offers a day-to-day account, in the form of emails to friends and family, of his wife's recovery after she was burned over more than eighty percent of her body from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Brad Raines, a special agent for the FBI who is trying to solve a serial killer case in which a bridal veil is left at each crime scene, approaches the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a psychiatric institution with gifted clients, and when he enlists the help of Paradise, a young woman who can experience the final moments of a person's life when touching their dead body, he wonders if he can prevent the next murder.

In the summer of 1978, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a boy his age, nearly dead, in an abandoned house and nurses him back to health, learning that the boy was kidnapped, ransomed, and does not know how he got to the house, and that nearly everyone in Michele's small community is involved in the crime.