Who Was?

  • Who Was Jacqueline Kennedy?

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    Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses.

    Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamoro

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Bader, Bonnie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 06 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448486989
    • Language: English
  • Who Is Judy Blume?

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    Learn how Judy Blume went from a stay-at-home mother to one of the most beloved American authors of the twentieth century.

    Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from chil

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 02 2018
    • ISBN10: 0448488493
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Ronald Reagan?

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    From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in Hollywood and on to a career in politics that took him all the way to the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan kept an abiding faith in America and in… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Milton, Joyce
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 29 2004
    • ISBN10: 0448433443
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Ernest Shackleton?

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    As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton’s incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was…?
    • Author: Buckley, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 0448479311
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Jane Austen?

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    Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author.

    Although Jane Austen’s works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal reco

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Fabiny, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 0448488639
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Coretta Scott King?

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    The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.

    Here’s a

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Herman, Gail
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 0451532619
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?

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    Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in … [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Frith, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: January 07 2010
    • ISBN10: 0448453460
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Cesar Chavez?

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    Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist.

    When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Rau, Dana Meachen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 1101995602
    • Language: English
  • Who Is Hillary Clinton?

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    Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out now

    At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an applic

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Alexander, Heather
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448490153
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Celia Cruz?

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    How did a working-class girl from Cuba become a symbol of artistic freedom for Cuban Americans and the “Queen of Salsa”? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!

    Although her family and friend

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 04 2020
    • ISBN10: 0448488698
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Maurice Sendak?

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    It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut–June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, af… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pascal, Janet B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 27 2013
    • ISBN10: 0448465000
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Fidel Castro?

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    When Fidel Castro died on November 25, 2016, many people around the world responded with mixed emotions. Learn all about the man who shaped Cuba for more than half a decade.

    After overthrowing Fulgenc

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Fabiny, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 22 2017
    • ISBN10: 045153333X
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Henry VIII?

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    Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Travel to the age of the Renaissance and learn why Henry VIII is one of the most famous kings in English history.

    Mainly remembered for his six marriages and his self-appointment as

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Labrecque, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 044848854X
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Queen Victoria?

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    Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Gigliotti, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 10 2014
    • ISBN10: 0448481820
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?

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    When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn’t k… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was…?
    • Author: Kramer, S. A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 105
    • Publish Date: August 03 2004
    • ISBN10: 044843105X
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Charles Dickens?

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    As a child, Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory where his gritty surroundings inspired some of the most memorable characters and settings in literary history. Known for his masterful story… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 26 2014
    • ISBN10: 0448479672
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Andy Warhol?

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    Best known for his screen prints of soup cans and movie stars, this shy young boy from Pittsburgh shot to fame with his radical ideas of what “art” could be. Working in the aptly named “Factory,” Warh… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 26 2014
    • ISBN10: 0448482428
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Sam Walton?

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    The story of a department-store trainee who became the richest man in America and owner of the biggest retail store in the world: Walmart.

    Sam Walton used the money he earned in the army, along with

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Buckley, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: November 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1524792705
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Lucille Ball?

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    Who doesn’t love Lucy? The legendary actress, producer, and comedian steps into the Who Was? spotlight.

    Much like her hit TV show, I Love Lucy, Americans in the 1950s fell in love with Lucy. Born in

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 0448483033
    • Language: English
  • Who Is Bruce Springsteen?

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    Not only was Bruce Springsteen “Born in the USA,” he has risen to become a twenty-time Grammy winner and American icon.

    Bruce Springsteen grew up in a blue-collar New Jersey town, where his parents st

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Sabol, Stephanie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 27 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448487039
    • Language: English
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