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8 best books like Who Was Nelson Mandela? (Meg Belviso): What Was Pearl Harbor?, What Was the Underground Railroad?, What Was Pompeii?, Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers (Classic Starts), Greek Myths (Classic Starts Series), What Was the Great Depression?, What Was D-Day?

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...
AuthorJim O'Connor
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...
Treasure Island
AuthorChris Tait
ISBN1402713185
Treasure Island is one of my favorite book after i finish the story. It tells about Jim Hawkins, a young adventurer had to find pirate's treasure somewhere where no one ever been there. At first, when i read this book i don't really like it because it's about pirates and finding treasure. But since i read...
The Three Musketeers (Classic Starts)
AuthorOliver Ho
ISBN1402736959
"All for one and one for all!" That's the rallying cry of the Musketeers--guards of the French King--and the call to adventure for young readers enjoying their first taste of Dumas' classic swashbuckler. Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and the not-quite-yet Musketeer D'Artagnan use their wits and their...
Greek Myths (Classic Starts Series)
AuthorDiane Namm
ISBN1402773129
I read this book because I was taking a mythology class and felt exceedingly ignorant of mythology compared to my classmates. My education of the gods was limited to a little introduction in middle school (which I pretty much forgot everything I learned), the Percy Jackson series (which acutally helped...
What Was the Great Depression?
AuthorJanet B. Pascal
ISBN0448484277
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 Was D-Day?
AuthorPatricia Brennan Demuth
ISBN0448484072
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...
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