What Was?
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What Is American Sign Language?
$7.99 Read moreLearn about the history of American Sign Language, from its origins in older signed languages to its role in the education of deaf and hearing children today in this illustrated chapter book!
American- Series: What Was?
- Author: Herman, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217049288
- Language: English
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What Is Greek Mythology?
$7.99 Read moreHow did Zeus come to rule the sky? How did Poseidon become the god of the sea? Learn all about the myths and legends of Greek mythology in this dramatic history, featuring 16 pages of photos.
Celebrat- Series: What Was?
- Author: Waterfield, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217051021
- Language: English
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What Is Ai?
$7.99 Read moreHave you ever wondered how AI came to be? How did ChatGPT develop? Who is “Siri”? Find out everything you need to know about the rise of AI and advancing technology, including future applications and … [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Locher, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217050963
- Language: English
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What Was the Industrial Revolution?
$7.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking people, ideas, and inventions of the Industrial Revolution, spanning from 1760 to 1840, are brought to life in this fascinating addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? … [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Gigliotti, Jim E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593754255
- Language: English
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What Is Lunar New Year?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn how many different Asian communities celebrate Lunar New Year in this book for young readers that reveals why the first new moon of the year is such a culturally significant moment for many coun… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Jun Kirklin, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593888111
- Language: English
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What Are Taylor Swift’s Eras?
$7.99 Add to cart“Are you ready for it?” Learn all the details of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in this nonfiction book for young readers that teaches them about every Taylor album, from her debut to The Tortured Poets Dep… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Catherine, Niki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217050390
- Language: English
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What Is a Presidential Election?: 2024 Edition
$7.99 Add to cartThis revised edition (updated for the 2024 election) explains American presidential campaigns and includes stickers, activities, and a color-your-own Electoral Map!
Who can run for president? What are- Series: What Was?
- Author: Yacka, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593753232
- Language: English
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Qu fue el Titanic? (What Was the Titanic? Spanish Edition)
$6.99 Add to cartDurante m?s de cien a?os la gente ha estado cautivada por el desastroso hundimiento del Titanic, que se cobr? m?s de 1500 vidas. Ahora los j?venes lectores pueden conocer por qu? se hundi? el gigantes… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Sabol, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593888863
- Language: Spanish
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What Were the Negro Leagues?
$7.99 Add to cartThis baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history of baseball.
In America during the early twentieth ce- Series: What Was?
- Author: Johnson, Varian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1524789984
- Language: English
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What Are Castles and Knights?
$7.99 Add to cartGo back to the thrilling time of warring knights who were prepared to give their life in order to protect their lord and his castle.
Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in rea- Series: What Was?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0593226860
- Language: English
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What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn about Boston’s molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, in this latest addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series.
An unusually warm winter- Series: What Was?
- Author: Anderson, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593520777
- Language: English
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What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916?
$7.99 Add to cartThe panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the New York Times Best-Selling What Was? series.
On July 1, 1916, wi- Series: What Was?
- Author: Medina, Nico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593521587
- Language: English
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What Was the Renaissance?
$7.99 Add to cartDiscover all there is to know about the Renaissance, the period in history that took Europe from the Middle Ages to modern times!
Beginning in Italy, the Renaissance was a cultural movement that sprea- Series: What Was?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 593751833
- Language: English
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What Are the Ten Commandments?
$5.99 Add to cartLearn the story behind the ten laws that have been the guiding light of Judeo-Christian belief.
Not just about Moses, whose origin story leaves open questions, this book looks back at the time when th- Series: What Was?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0515157236
- Language: English
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What Is Rock and Roll?
$7.99 Read morePut on your dancing shoes and move to the music.
Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O’- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 045153381X
- Language: English
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What Is the AIDS Crisis?
$5.99 Read moreIn this addition to the New York Times bestselling series, learn how incredible activists made the public aware of AIDS and spurred medical breakthroughs.
In the early 1980s, the first cases of a deva- Series: What Was?
- Author: Medina, Nico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0593227026
- Language: English
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What Was the Alamo?
$7.99 Add to cart“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 Alam… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0448467100
- Language: English
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What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
$5.99 Add to cartIn this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake.
One early April morning in 1- Series: What Was?
- Author: Hoobler, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 399541594
- Language: English
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What Was the Wild West?
$7.99 Add to cartSaddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West.
The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when territories west of the Mississippi River remained untame- Series: What Was?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0399544240
- Language: English
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What Was the Age of Exploration?
$7.99 Add to cartLand ho! Discover what the Age of Exploration was all about in this wonderful addition to the bestselling Who HQ series!
Before the fifteenth century, European sailors were unsure what waited for them- Series: What Was?
- Author: Daly, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0593093828
- Language: English
