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What Were the Salem Witch Trials? (What Was?)

What Were the Salem Witch Trials? (What Was?)

By Joan Holub

3.673 ratings1 reviews

Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when t...
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What Was Hurricane Katrina?

What Was Hurricane Katrina?

By Robin Koontz

52 ratings1 reviews

On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gul...
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What Was D-Day?

What Was D-Day?

By Patricia Brennan Demuth

43 ratings2 reviews

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troo...
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What Was Pearl Harbor?

What Was Pearl Harbor?

By Patricia Brennan Demuth

41 ratings1 reviews

A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the...
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What Was the Boston Tea Party?

What Was the Boston Tea Party?

By Kathleen Krull

51 ratings2 reviews

"No Taxation without Representation!" The Boston Tea Party stands as an iconic event of the Ameri...
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What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?

What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?

By Jim O'Connor

4.333 ratings3 reviews

"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the t...
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What Was the March on Washington?

What Was the March on Washington?

By Kathleen Krull

0 ratings4 reviews

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights f...
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Who Was Harry Houdini?

Who Was Harry Houdini?

By Tui Sutherland

4.676 ratings7 reviews

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail c...
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Who Was Albert Einstein?

Who Was Albert Einstein?

By Jess Brallier

4.449 ratings12 reviews

Black-and-white illustrations on every spread and a lower reading level than other biographies in...
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