"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...

Give children an in-depth look at what a career as a police officer is like. With this informative nonfiction title, readers will learn about various aspects of life as a police officer--from being accepted into the academy to keeping streets safe. Readers will learn what a typical day in the police academy is like as well as a day in the field as an officer. Through Time For Kids© content, helpful charts and diagrams, and colorful images in conjunction...

Provides basic career information on police officers.

Every day, people are faced with critical, life-threatening situations - in times of trouble, who can help? In this title, readers will get to know the police officers who arrive on the scene of the crime or emergency. Chapters highlight the different kinds of law enforcement officers as well as the training, tools, and knowledge police forces need to save lives and property, collect evidence, investigate crimes, and uphold the law. An interview with...

"On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty-one years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate gets to know his devastated family and the people--both...

Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son's biological mother upends Decker's home life.

In "Ten Keys," a drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger. A rookie cop in "Normal in Every Way" is assigned to the department's file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he's outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. A potential worker for the Manhattan Project is carefully surveilled by an FBI agent....

"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains the parts of police cars and how they help police officers do their jobs"--

Struggling to connect a seemingly unrelated series of murders as the summer of 1966 approaches, Constable Ned Parker must save his nephew, Cody, who has followed their main suspect across the Rio Grande into Mexico.