Crimes Through Time

Written by Rosie McCormick · Illustrated by Diego Otero

Search crowded scenes across history for lawbreakers, then find out how each era punished them.

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80 pages· ~700L· AR ~4.5

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Bookroo's summary

This interactive tour through time asks readers to spot the criminals hiding in busy scenes, from a marketplace in ancient Greece to medieval Canterbury and gold-rush Sacramento. A briefing packed with clues comes before each scene, and the pages that follow explain the laws of the day and the sometimes grisly punishments that awaited lawbreakers, with red herrings and true facts along the way.

From the publisher

Warning: Criminals from different times and places lurk within these pages. An interactive adventure through time, finding misdeeds and learning about historical punishments. Spot criminals in Ancient Greece's marketplace, lawbreakers in rough-and-tumble Sacramento, and wrongdoers in medieval Canterbury in this interactive history adventure. This time-traveling adventure introduces the laws of the land from Ancient Egypt to the California Gold Rush. After a briefing packed with clues, young would-be detectives are thrust into a busy city scene. Which characters are breaking the law? And what (sometimes grisly) fate awaits them? Devious red herrings and shocking-but-true facts add to this fascinating overview of crime and punishment across history.

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