What Was?
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What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
$7.99 Add to cartHiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it’s meant for the world ever since.
By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the figh- Series: What Was?
- Author: Brallier, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1524792659
- Language: English
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What Is Climate Change?
$5.99 Add to cartLearn more about what climate change means and how it’s affecting our planet.
The earth is definitely getting warmer. There’s no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate- Series: What Was?
- Author: Herman, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 19, 2018
- ISBN10: 1524786152
- Language: English
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What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series!
Befor- Series: What Was?
- Author: Gayle, Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0593521706
- Language: English
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What Is the Statue of Liberty?
$7.99 Add to cartIn 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and very special present–the Statue of Liberty. The gift was to commemorate the 100th birthday of the United States, and just packing it w… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479176
- Language: English
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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
$7.99 Add to cartIn this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s a… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Smith, Sherri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0593225902
- Language: English
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What Is the Declaration of Independence?
$7.99 Add to cartStep back in time to the birth of the United States 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- Series: What Was?
- Author: Harris, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 044848692X
- Language: English
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What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
$5.99 Add to cartRelive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation- Series: What Was?
- Author: Smith, Sherri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1524792306
- Language: English
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
$5.99 Add to cartNo 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 “R
- Series: What Was?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26, 2013
- ISBN10: 0448467127
- Language: English
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What Is the Constitution?
$5.99 Add to cartWe the people at Who HQ bring readers the full story–arguments and all–of how the United States Constitution came into being.
Signed on September 17, 1787–four years after the American War for Ind- Series: What Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 19, 2018
- ISBN10: 1524786098
- Language: English
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What Is the Super Bowl?
$7.99 Add to cartWith over 110 million viewers every year, the Super Bowl is one of the most watched television events in the United States. The final showdown between the two best football teams in the NFL attracts s… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Anastasio, Dina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0448486954
- Language: English
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What Is the World Cup?
$7.99 Add to cartGOOOAAAAAL Get ready for a front-row seat at the world’s most-watched sporting event–the World Cup.
Every four years, thirty-two of the best men’s soccer teams from across the globe compete for the- Series: What Was?
- Author: Bader, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0515158216
- Language: English
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What Is the Women’s World Cup?
$7.99 Add to cartGooaal! Soccer fans, get your game on with this book about one of the biggest tournaments in women’s sports.
The first international women’s soccer match was in 1881, but the Women’s World Cup didn’t- Series: What Was?
- Author: Shaw, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 593520653
- Language: English
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What Is Lego?
$7.99 Add to cartFind out how these fun, stackable blocks became the most popular toys in the world.
The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble be- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 05, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593092945
- Language: English
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What Was the Titanic?
$5.99 Add to cartFor more than one hundred 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
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Sabol, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 0515157260
- Language: English
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What Was the Donner Party?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn about the treacherous journey across the Sierra Nevada mountain range that isolated and trapped a group of pioneers heading to California for an entire winter in this latest addition to the New
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Hubbard, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593520742
- Language: English
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What Was the Children’s Blizzard of 1888?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn about the deadly and unexpected blizzard that slammed the Midwestern United States in 1888 and doomed many young lives in this addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series.
On Jan- Series: What Was?
- Author: Korté, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593520718
- Language: English
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What Is Juneteenth?
$7.99 Add to cartDiscover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States.
On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered … [more below]- Series: What Was?
- Author: Jewel, Kirsti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593384695
- Language: English
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What Was World War I?
$7.99 Add to cartThis compelling addition to the What Was? series covers what was supposed to be “the war to end all wars” but tragically wasn’t.
In 1914, the assassination of an Austrian archduke set off a disastrous- Series: What Was?
- Author: Medina, Nico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 059352165X
- Language: English
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What Was the Vietnam War?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world.
The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1524789771
- Language: English
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What Was Pearl Harbor?
$7.99 Add to cartA 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 battle- Series: What Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0448464624
- Language: English
