Who Was Joan of Arc?
10 best books like Who Was Joan of Arc? (Pam Pollack): What Was Ellis Island?, What Was Pearl Harbor?, What Was the Underground Railroad?, What Was Pompeii?, What Was the Boston Tea Party?, Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?, What Was the Holocaust?, What Was the Great Depression?, What Is the Declaration of Independence?, What Were the Twin Towers?
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150 million. It opened...
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448465809 |
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?
| Author | Yona Zeldis McDonough |
| ISBN | 0448467127 |
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...
The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1,700...
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0448465760 |
"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?
| 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...
| Author | Gail Herman |
| ISBN | 0451533909 |
A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,...
What Was the Great Depression?
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0448484277 |
On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their...
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
| Author | Michael C. Harris |
| ISBN | 0399542302 |
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?
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0399542310 |
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...
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448484072 |
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the...
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?
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0448462869 |
"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...
