What Was the Alamo?
10 best books like What Was the Alamo? (Meg Belviso): Who Was Winston Churchill?, Who Was J.R.R. Tolkien?, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?, Who Was Charles Dickens?, Who Was Sitting Bull?, Who Was Betsy Ross?, Who Was Robert E. Lee?, Who Was Alexander the Great?, Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?, Where Is Stonehenge?
| Author | Ellen Labrecque |
| ISBN | 0448483009 |
Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch opponent of the encroaching German Nazis. Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940...
| Author | Pam Pollack |
| ISBN | 0448483025 |
Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure.
Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four....
| Author | Roberta Edwards |
| ISBN | 0448443015 |
Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to. Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated...
| Author | Pam Pollack |
| ISBN | 0448479672 |
Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso have succeeded in condensing Charles Dickens' life supremely well in an absorbing 103-page book. Obviously they have not had the space to go into great detail about everything but they have covered the most important points of the author's life in sufficient detail for the...
| Author | Stephanie Spinner |
| ISBN | 0448479656 |
No one knew the boy they called “Jumping Badger” would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe in a time of fierce conflict with the United States. As the government seized...
| Author | James Buckley Jr. |
| ISBN | 0448482436 |
Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By...
| Author | Bonnie Bader |
| ISBN | 0448479095 |
Robert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class! In 1861, when the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lee was offered the opportunity to command the Union forces. However, even though he was against the war, his...
Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series!
When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was not the case....
Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 1524786268 |
Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic...
Unravel some of the riddles of Stonehenge, one of the most famous and mysterious monuments in the world!
Where is Stonehenge? That's an easy question to answer. It sits on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. But what is the meaning of these strange circles of stones? Was Stonehenge a religious...
| Author | True Kelley |
| ISBN | 0448483564 |
It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so.
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving...
A marvel of engineering that proclaimed the might of the Emperor of Ancient Rome.
The Emperor Titus opened the enormous Colosseum in AD 80 to host 100 days of games, and it will astound readers to learn what the ancient Romans found entertaining. Over 50,000 screaming fans watched gladiators...
| Author | Paula K. Manzanero |
| ISBN | 1524786411 |
You'll find it on a map--but you'll never get anywhere near this top secret military base. What exactly is going on there?
Is Area 51 a top secret military base that lies in the middle of the barren Nevada desert? Or could it actually be a facility for examining aliens and their spaceships? People...
