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  • Who Was P. T. Barnum?

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    Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up for Who HQ’s entertaining biography of P. T. Barnum: politician, businessman, and The Greatest Showman on Earth

    After moving from Connecticut

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 0448488485
    • Language: English
  • Who Were the Three Stooges?

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    Discover more about the comedy team that perfected the art of the pie fight

    The Three Stooges were the hardworking children of immigrants and discovered a love of performing at an early age. Starting

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 18 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448488663
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Abigail Adams?

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    Abigail Adams was a strong woman far ahead of her time. She urged her husband, President John Adams, to “remember the ladies” and despite having no formal education herself, she later advocated for eq… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Kelley, True
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: January 23 2014
    • ISBN10: 0448478900
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Susan B. Anthony?

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    Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women’s rights had personal roots. Working as a school teacher in New York, Anthony refused to settle for less pay than her male coll… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was…?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 30 2014
    • ISBN10: 044847963X
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Beatrix Potter?

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    Born into wealth in 1860’s London, Beatrix Potter always had a vivid imagination. Her early interests included natural history and archaeology, and Potter delighted in sketching fossils and fungi. Aft… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Fabiny, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 21 2015
    • ISBN10: 044848305X
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?

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    Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture a… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Labrecque, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 29 2015
    • ISBN10: 0448483130
    • Language: English
  • Who Is Stevie Wonder?

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    Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

    Stevie Wonder is one of the most successful singer-songwriter-musician

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Gigliotti, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 18 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448488582
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Louis Braille?

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    Louis Braille certainly wasn’t your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Frith, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 13 2014
    • ISBN10: 0448479036
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

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    Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright. Slavery was a major industry in the American South, and Stowe worked with the Underground Railroad to he… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Rau, Dana Meachen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 21 2015
    • ISBN10: 0448483017
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Benedict Arnold?

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    Find out how this one-time American hero became the country’s most notorious traitor.

    As a young child, Benedict Arnold never shied away from a fight. So when the French and Indian War began in 1754,

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Buckley, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 06 2020
    • ISBN10: 0448488523
    • Language: English
  • Who Is George Lucas?

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    As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. He is a producer, screenwriter, director and entrepreneur whose company … [more below]

    • Series: Who Was…?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: May 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 0448479478
    • Language: English
  • Who Is Elton John?

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    How does a little boy from the London suburbs named Reginald Kenneth Dwight grow up to become one of the biggest pop stars of all time? A lot of talent and a lot of personality! Elton John, as he woul… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 22 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448488469
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Che Guevara?

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    Viva la revoluci?!

    Find out how Che Guevara–a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt–ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause.

    His very image has become asso

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Labrecque, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 0399544011
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Walt Whitman?

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    How did a New York printer become one of the most influential poets of all time? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library

    Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0399543988
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Claude Monet?

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    Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a founder of the French Impressionist art movement, and today his paintings sell for millions of dollars. While Monet … [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Waldron, Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 23 2009
    • ISBN10: 0448449854
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Maria Tallchief?

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    Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was…?
    • Author: Gourley, Catherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 22 2002
    • ISBN10: 0448426757
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Leif Erikson?

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    Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? series!

    Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His f

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Medina, Nico
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 05 2018
    • ISBN10: 0448488612
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Richard Nixon?

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    Learn more about Richard Nixon–one of America’s most unpopular presidents and the only one to resign from the position.

    On August 8, 1974, millions sat stunned as they watched Richard Nixon on TV whe

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Stine, Megan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 1524789801
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Catherine the Great?

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    Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia’s longest-ruling female leader!

    Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed to come to power. But at age sixteen, she married th

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0399544305
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?

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    Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Gigliotti, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 11 2015
    • ISBN10: 0448483114
    • Language: English
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