What Was?
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What Was Ellis Island?
$7.99 Add to cartFrom 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not res… [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2014
- ISBN10: 044847915X
- Language: English
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What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?
$5.99 Add to cartTravel back to the time when the mighty dinosaurs ruled the earth.
The Age of Dinosaurs began about 250 million years ago. In the beginning they were quite small but over time they evolved into the va- Series: What Was?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 0451532643
- Language: English
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What Was the Holocaust?
$7.99 Add to cartA thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event–the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi d- Series: What Was?
- Author: Herman, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 19, 2018
- ISBN10: 0451533909
- Language: English
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What Was D-Day?
$7.99 Add to cartIn the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious de… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0448484072
- Language: English
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What Was Reconstruction?
$7.99 Add to cartIn the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.
Learn about a pivotal time in America- Series: What Was?
- Author: Smith, Sherri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593225937
- Language: English
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What Was the Ice Age?
$7.99 Read moreA mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive.
Go back 20,000 years ago to- Series: What Was?
- Author: Medina, Nico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0399543899
- Language: English
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
$7.99 Add to cartSomething wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girl… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0448479052
- Language: English
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What Is Nasa?
$7.99 Add to cartFind out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the Unit- Series: What Was?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1524786039
- Language: English
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What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
$7.99 Add to cartWhen Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the “Corp of Discovery” left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Lou… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: St George, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 16 2014
- ISBN10: 044847901X
- Language: English
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What Is the World Series?
$7.99 Read more“Strike – you’re out!” “He’s safe!” “Homerun!” Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball’s biggest championship. But the original games… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Herman, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0448484064
- Language: English
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What Were the Twin Towers?
$7.99 Add to cartDiscover the true story of the Twin Towers–how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed.
When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architec- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0448487853
- Language: English
