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10 best books like Who Was Robert E. Lee? (Bonnie Bader): What Was Pearl Harbor?, What Was the Underground Railroad?, What Was the Alamo?, What Was the Great Chicago Fire?, What Was Pompeii?, Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?, What Was the Great Depression?, What Is the Declaration of Independence?, What Was the Titanic?, Where Is Stonehenge?

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 Alamo?
AuthorMeg Belviso
ISBN0448467100
"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With...
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 Pompeii?
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...
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...
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 Stonehenge?
AuthorTrue Kelley
Unravel some of the riddles of Stonehenge, one of the most famous and mysterious monuments in the world!

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 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...
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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