Toe Tagged: True Stories from the Morgue

24/7: Science Behind the Scenes

by Jaime Joyce

- Background information to build content-area knowledge including: Scientific timelines, words to know, job descriptions, and seminal cases
- Chapter Summaries and questions that recap the evidence: You're The Medical Examiner
- Reading Cues and Clues: Prompts, call-outs, highlighted words, diagrams, and primary sources
- Field Guides and Tools: Bone Guides, Parasite Guides, Ghost-Hunter Technology, Spy gadgets
- Cool, bold, graphic design: CSI-like real-time graphic organizers
- Critical thinking and analysis: the Science behind identifying who, what, when, where, why
Curriculum Standards: Grades 5-8 and 9-12 Science Standards
Science as Inquiry
- Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
- Communicate and defend a scientific argument.
- Results of scientific inquiry emerge from different types of investigations and public communication among scientists.
Science and Technology
- Communicate the problem, process, and solution
- Scientists use different methods of investigation, and accept different types of evidence to support their explanations.

Genres: Crime, Science

Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This fascinating book is part of a young reader’s series entitled 24/7 Science Behind the Scenes: Forensic Files.

Toe Tagged allows young people who are interested in a career as a forensic pathologist to see what pathologists really do! Author Jaime Joyce presents the real stories of different cases involving suspicious deaths and shows the work that pathologists did to determine how, why, and when these victims died.

An interesting short history of the profession is outlined. The book also includes a glossary of terms used in this profession, photos and explanations of the tools used by pathologists when performing an autopsy, as well as a bibliography of additional books about pathology written for young readers and websites that are helpful. It concludes with a short explanation about the education necessary to become a pathologist.

Young people who want to pursue this profession would find this short book a great first source of information! Interesting and well worth reading!!

[Lesley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this to have an idea of student reading material. I believe this book could have been more challenging given the reading level.

[Aiden · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a good book for people who like mysteries,and solving crime I would recommend it to people ages 11 and on

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fairly good introduction. It's not gruesome, beyond the inherent morbidness of the topic. It includes a picture of a set of autopsy tools/implements.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

THis book was good i learned thing i probably would never learn if i didn't read this book it was very interest kind of gross but over all i would recommend this book if someone wanted to read it.

[Lisandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

the book toe tagged is a good book to read. there is a lot of nice stories in that book and tell you how they find all those dead bodies

[Jamie Real · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a very interesting book because its about mystery and criminal cases.

[Kary · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really interesting non fiction book about forensics for the middle grade level. I think this would be highly popular in my library. Will add it to the list to consider buying! Great for STEM!