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| 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...
| Author | True Kelley |
| ISBN | 0448461463 |
Just in time for Roahl Dahl Month!
Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was . . . ? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was married to an Academy Award-winning actress. He also wrote books...
| Author | Pam Pollack |
| ISBN | 0448479672 |
Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso have succeeded in condensing Charles Dickens' life supremely well in an absorbing 103-page book. Obviously they have not had the space to go into great detail about everything but they have covered the most important points of the author's life in sufficient detail for the...
| Author | Stephanie Spinner |
| ISBN | 0448479656 |
No one knew the boy they called “Jumping Badger” would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe in a time of fierce conflict with the United States. As the government seized...
After breaking or tying more than sixty records in hockey, it's no wonder that Wayne Gretzky is known as "The Great One." Born in Brantford, Ontario, on January 26, 1961, in a nation obsessed with the sport, he threw himself into the game practically from the time he first laced up a pair of skates. When...
| Author | James Buckley Jr. |
| ISBN | 0448482436 |
Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By...
| Author | Jim Gigliotti |
| ISBN | 0448481820 |
Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But Victoria was raised under close supervision and near isolation until she became Queen of the United...
| Author | Nico Medina |
| ISBN | 0448480832 |
He came. He saw. He conquered. Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy politician, an impressive orator, and a brave soldier. Born in Rome in 100 BC, he quickly climbed the ladder of Roman politics, making allies--and enemies--along the way. His victories in battle awarded him the support...
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0448464616 |
This book should have been called "Who Was Bob Dylan a Dick To?" The author seems to have a giant vendetta against Dylan, and did not want this assignment. The 'Who Was/Is..." series of books never shies away from the darker side of its subjects, but this book just seemed to be a long series of people Dylan...
Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific...
| Author | Sarah Fabiny |
| ISBN | 0448479591 |
Though she grew up in rural Pennsylvania, Rachel Carson dreamed of the sea. In 1936 she began work with the Bureau of Fisheries and soon after published Under the Sea Wind, her first of many nature books.
Her 1962 bestseller, Silent Spring, sent shockwaves through the country and warned...
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0448479133 |
Born prematurely on Christmas day, Isaac Newton would soon change the world.
I find it very interesting that Newton was guided towards his discoveries through some key incidents.
1) His mother moved into his step-father’s house abandoning him. He despised his step-father and...
| Author | April Jones Prince |
| ISBN | 0448479117 |
Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience...
| Author | Joan Holub |
| ISBN | 0448454068 |
Jim Henson broke into television with a five-minute puppetry segment when he was only a freshman in college. He created puppets like none ever seen before, with expressive fabric faces and rod-controlled arms. His Muppets became world-renowned celebrities and formed the backbone of a media empire....
As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South Africa. He became the country’s first...
