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10 best books like Who Was Betsy Ross? (James Buckley Jr.): What Was Pearl Harbor?, What Was the Underground Railroad?, What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?, What Was the Boston Tea Party?, Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?, Where Is Machu Picchu?, What Is the Declaration of Independence?, What Were the Twin Towers?, What Was the Titanic?, Where Is Walt Disney World?

What Was Pearl Harbor?
AuthorPatricia Brennan Demuth
ISBN0448465809
A terrifying attack!

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...
What Was the Underground Railroad?
AuthorYona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN0448467127
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles...
What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
AuthorJudith St. George
When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the United...
What Was the Boston Tea Party?
AuthorKathleen Krull
ISBN0448465760
"No Taxation without Representation!" The Boston Tea Party stands as an iconic event of the American Revolution—outraged by the tax on tea, American colonists chose to destroy the tea by dumping it into the water! Learn all about the famed colonialists who fought against the British Monarchy, and...
Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
AuthorMegan Stine
ISBN1524786268
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...
Where Is Machu Picchu?
AuthorMegan Stine
ISBN0515159611
What's left of Machu Picchu stands as the most significant link to the marvelous Inca civilization of Peru. Now readers can explore these ruins in this compelling Where Is? title.

Built in the fifteenth century and tucked away in the mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spaniards...
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
AuthorMichael C. Harris
ISBN0399542302
Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free!

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?
AuthorJim O'Connor
ISBN0399542310
Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed.

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?
AuthorStephanie Sabol
ISBN0515157287
For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later.

At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic,...
Where Is Walt Disney World?
AuthorJoan Holub
ISBN0515158437
Building the most magical place on earth was no fairy tale. Learn the story behind the creation of Walt Disney World.

In 1964, when Walt Disney and his brother Roy decided to build a second theme park in the Florida swamplands, they kept it super hush-hush. Why? Well, if word got out that they...
Where Is Mount Rushmore?
AuthorTrue Kelley
ISBN0448483564
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...
What Is the Constitution?
AuthorPatricia Brennan Demuth
ISBN1524786098
We the people at Who HQ bring readers the full story--arguments and all--of how the US Constitution came into being.

Signed on September 17, 1787--four years after the American War for Independence--the Constitution laid out the supreme law of the United States of America. Today it's easy...
Where Is the Colosseum?
AuthorJim O'Connor
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...
What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
AuthorJim O'Connor
ISBN0448462869
"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point.

So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With black-and-white...
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