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I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
| Author | Lauren Tarshis |
| ISBN | 0545658527 |
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448465809 |
On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into...
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0399542388 |
On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything...
What Is the Super Bowl?
| Author | Dina Anastasio |
| ISBN | 0448486954 |
Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 1524786268 |
Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic...
Where Is Machu Picchu?
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 0515159611 |
Built in the fifteenth century and tucked away in the mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spaniards...
What Was the Great Depression?
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0448484277 |
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
| Author | Michael C. Harris |
| ISBN | 0399542302 |
On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that...
What Were the Twin Towers?
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0399542310 |
When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed...
What Was the Titanic?
| Author | Stephanie Sabol |
| ISBN | 0515157287 |
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic,...
Who Was Stephen Hawking?
| Author | Jim Gigliotti |
| ISBN | 0451532481 |
Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in...
Where Is Stonehenge?
| Author | True Kelley |
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...
Where Is the Colosseum?
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
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...
Who Is Michael Jordan?
| Author | Kirsten Anderson |
| ISBN | 0451532457 |
Meet the man who changed the game forever. Michael Jordan has always been competitive--even as a young boy, he fought for attention. His need to be the best made him a star player on his college basketball...
What Were the Roaring Twenties?
| Author | Michele Mortlock |
| ISBN | 1524786381 |
It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild,...
Who Was P. T. Barnum?
| Author | Kirsten Anderson |
| ISBN | 0448488485 |
After moving from Connecticut to New York City in 1834, twenty-four-year-old Phineas Taylor Barnum launched his...
What Was the Ice Age?
| Author | Nico Medina |
| ISBN | 0399543899 |
Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered...
Who Was Norman Rockwell?
| Author | Sarah Fabiny |
| ISBN | 0448488647 |
Norman Rockwell often painted what he saw around him in nostalgic and humorous ways. After hearing President Franklin Roosevelt's address to Congress in 1943, he was inspired...