John O'Brien
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Who Was Mark Twain?
$6.99 Add to cartA humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huc… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Prince, April Jones
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: May 24 2004
- ISBN10: 448433192
- Language: English
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Who Was Betsy Ross?
$6.99 Add to cartBorn 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… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0448482436
- Language: English
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Who Was Paul Revere?
$6.99 Add to cartIn 1775, Paul Revere of Boston made his now-famous horseback ride warning colonists of an impending attack by the British. This event went largely unnoticed in history until Longfellow celebrated it i… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0448457156
- Language: English
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Air Is All Around You
$6.99 Add to cartRead and find out about how to discover more about the air that’s all around you in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
What weighs 5 quadrillion tons but can’t knock you down? Air!
The
- Series: Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out Science 1
- Author: Branley, Franklyn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0060594152
- Language: English
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Who Is Michelle Obama?
$5.99 Read moreBorn into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as t… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0448478633
- Language: English
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Who Was Harry Houdini?
$6.99 Add to cartEvery kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a fa… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Sutherland, Tui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 22, 2002
- ISBN10: 0448426862
- Language: English
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Who Was William Shakespeare?
$6.99 Add to cartThe beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world’s most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Mannis, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 28, 2006
- ISBN10: 0448439042
- Language: English
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Who Was Galileo?
$5.99 Add to cartLike Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name–a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo cont… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 5, 2015
- ISBN10: 0448479850
- Language: English
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The Night Before Christmas Coloring Book
$5.99 Read more“I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick,” wrote Clement Moore in 1822. Since then, his graphic Santa Claus image has become the world’s. Moore’s jolly old self, the reindeer-sleigh and chimney leap, t
- Series: Dover Holiday Coloring Book
- Author: O’Brien, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0486241696
- Language: English
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
$6.99 Add to cartOne day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edi… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Frith, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0448437651
- Language: English
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Who Was Elvis Presley?
$6.99 Add to cartPut on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? series The King could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he gre… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Edgers, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0448446421
- Language: English
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Who Is Jane Goodall?
$6.99 Add to cartA life in the wild
Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to study them in their natural habitats. So at age twenty-six, off she went to Africa Goodall’s up-close obs- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0448461927
- Language: English
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Leaving Las Vegas
$18.00 Add to cartLeaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O’Brien, is the disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it. Sera is a prostitute, content with the inde… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: 14-Mar-17
- ISBN10: 080212593X
- Language: English
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
$6.99 Add to cartBorn to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age–literally (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0448448866
- Language: English
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Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be
$12.99 Add to cartThe greatest discoveries are made outside the classroom Learn all about mistakes that changed the world with this collection of the strange stories behind everyday inventions It’s no accident that y
- Author: Jones, Charlotte Foltz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0385320434
- Language: English
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How Benjamin Franklin Became a Revolutionary in Seven (Not-So-Easy) Steps
$18.99 Add to cartHow did Ben Franklin become an outspoken leader of the American Revolution? Learn all about it in seven (not-so-easy) steps in this humorous, accessible middle-grade chapter book that focuses on Ben’s… [more below]
- Author: Woelfle, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 163592331X
- Language: English
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Who Is Barack Obama?
$6.99 Add to cartAs the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for … [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0448453304
- Language: English
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Who Was Jackie Robinson?
$6.99 Add to cartAs a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basketball, and, of course, baseball. But beyond athletic skill, it was his strength of character that secured his pl
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Herman, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 23, 2010
- ISBN10: 0448455579
- Language: English
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Who Was Ben Franklin?
$6.99 Add to cartBen Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied tal
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Fraden, Dennis Brindell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 18, 2002
- ISBN10: 0448424959
- Language: English
