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10 best books like Who Was Roald Dahl? (True Kelley): What Was Ellis Island?, What Was Pearl Harbor?, What Was the Great Chicago Fire?, What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?, What Was the Great Depression?, What Is the Declaration of Independence?, What Was the Titanic?, Where Is the Colosseum?, What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?, Who Was P. T. Barnum?

What Was Ellis Island?
AuthorPatricia 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...
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 Great Chicago Fire?
AuthorJanet B. Pascal
ISBN0399542388
Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series.

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 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 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 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 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 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...
Who Was P. T. Barnum?
AuthorKirsten Anderson
ISBN0448488485
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up for Who HQ's entertaining biography of P. T. Barnum: politician, businessman, and The Greatest Showman on Earth!

After moving from Connecticut to New York City in 1834, twenty-four-year-old Phineas Taylor Barnum launched his...
Who Was Norman Rockwell?
AuthorSarah Fabiny
ISBN0448488647
Brush up your knowledge on popular American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell with this exciting Who Was? title.

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...
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