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440348
What is the World Series? [What Was?]by Herman, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2015)

BTSB #: 440348 Available

Dewey: 796.357/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 680 F&P: U

Subjects: World Series (Baseball) Baseball - History


Summary: Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship. But the original games of the 1900s hardly look like they do today. Take a look back over one hundred years and discover the history of baseball's greatest series. With triumphs, heartbreak, and superstitious curses, this action-packed book brings America's Pastime to life.


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273358
What was D-Day? [What Was?]by Demuth, Patricia 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2015)

BTSB #: 273358 Available

Dewey: 940.54/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.5 3-5 Lexile: 840 F&P: Y

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - France - Normandy


Summary: Takes readers into the heart of the action and gives an hour-by-hour breakdown of one of the greatest amphibious landings ever.


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273357
What was Ellis Island? [What Was?]by Demuth, Patricia 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2014)

BTSB #: 273357 Available

Dewey: 304.8/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 800 F&P: W

Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) - History United States - Immigration and emigration - History


Summary: Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.


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529862
What was Hurricane Katrina? [What Was?]by Koontz, Robin Michal 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2015)

BTSB #: 529862 Available

Dewey: 976.3/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.9 MG RC: 5.7 3-5 Lexile: 880 F&P: U

Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Hurricanes Disasters Disaster relief Emergency management - United States


Summary: On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gulf of Mexico. Track this powerful storm from start to finish.


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273353
What was Pearl Harbor? [What Was?]by Demuth, Patricia 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2013)

BTSB #: 273353 Available

Dewey: 940.54/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 800 F&P: X

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Hawaii), Attack on, 1941


Summary: On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The United States was propelled into World War II.


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685800
What was Pompeii? [What Was?]by O'Connor, Jim 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2014)

BTSB #: 685800 Temp OS

Dewey: 937/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.3 MG RC: 7.3 3-5 Lexile: 940 F&P: V

Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city) Vesuvius (Italy) - Eruption, 79


Summary: No one was prepared when Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1,700 years. In 1748, explorers rediscovered the port city with intact buildings and beautiful mosaics.


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831139
What was Reconstruction? [What Was?]by Smith, Sherri L. 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2022)

BTSB #: 831139 Available

Dewey: 973.8/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.8 MG Lexile: 930 F&P: X

Subjects: Reconstruction (1865-1876) African Americans - History|y1863-1877 Southern States - History|y1865-1877 United States - Race relations - History|y19th century


Summary: Learn about the period after the Civil War that was meant to give former slaves equal rights and how segregationists ended it.


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635034
What was Stonewall? [What Was?]by Medina, Nico 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)

BTSB #: 635034 Available

Dewey: 306.7609/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 870 F&P: Z

Subjects: Gay liberation movement - United States - History Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969


Summary: How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movement across America?


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255971
What was the age of exploration? [What Was?]by Daly, Catherine 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2021)

BTSB #: 255971 Available

Dewey: 900/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 910 F&P: V

Subjects: Explorers Voyages and travels Continents


Summary: Explains how European sailors began exploring the globe in the fifteenth century and how their discoveries affected civilizations on every continent for good and bad.


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107456
What was the Alamo? [What Was?]by Pollack, Pam 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2013)

BTSB #: 107456 Available

Dewey: 976.4/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 800 F&P: X

Subjects: Buildings - San Antonio (Tex.) Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) - Siege, 1836 Texas - History|yTo 1846


Summary: Two hundred Americans held off more than two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days before defeat. The siege was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas.


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685797
What was the Battle of Gettysburg? [What Was?]by O'Connor, Jim 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2020)

BTSB #: 685797 In Bindery

Dewey: 973.7/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 810 F&P: W

Subjects: Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863


Summary: Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorates the day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. This turning point in history is brought vividly to life.


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635048
What was the Berlin Wall? [What Was?]by Medina, Nico 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)

BTSB #: 635048 Available

Dewey: 943/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.3 MG Lexile: 910 F&P: X

Subjects: Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 Cold War


Summary: In 1961, a concrete border went up overnight, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts: East and West. The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to post-World War II politics and the Cold War era, when the United States and the USSR were enemies, always on the verge of war.


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145126
What was the bombing of Hiroshima? [What Was?]by Brallier, Jess M. 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2020)

BTSB #: 145126 Available

Dewey: 940.54/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.2 MG Lexile: 870 F&P: X

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Japan - Hiroshima-shi Atomic bomb Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History|yBombardment, 1945


Summary: By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president--Harry S. Truman--to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki--and bring the war to a rapid close. Now, even decades later, can anyone know if this was the right choice?


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533306
What was the Boston Tea Party? [What Was?]by Krull, Kathleen 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2013)

BTSB #: 533306 Available

Dewey: 973.3/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.9 MG RC: 6.2 3-5 Lexile: 900 F&P: V

Subjects: Boston Tea Party, 1773 United States - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Causes


Summary: Learn all about the famed colonialists who fought against the British Monarchy, and read about this act of rebellion from our history!


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530203
What was the Children's Blizzard of 1888? [What Was?]by Korte, Steve 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2023)

BTSB #: 530203 Available

Dewey: 977/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 1050 F&P: U

Subjects: Blizzards - Great Plains - History|y19th century Frontier and pioneer life - Great Plains Great Plains - History|y19th century


Summary: Learn about the deadly and unexpected blizzard that slammed the Midwestern United States in 1888 and doomed many lives.


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What was the Donner Party? [What Was?]by Hubbard, Ben 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2023)

BTSB #: 467314 Available

Dewey: 979/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 900 F&P: Z

Subjects: Donner Party Pioneers - California - Biography Pioneers - West (U.S.) - Biography Overland journeys to the Pacific Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) - History|y19th century


Summary: Learn 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.


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What was the Gold Rush? [What Was?]by Holub, Joan 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2013)

BTSB #: 461337 Available

Dewey: 979.4/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 680 F&P: X

Subjects: Gold mines and mining - California - History|y19th century Frontier and pioneer life - California California - Gold discoveries California - History|y1846-1850 California - Social life and customs|y19th century


Summary: In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!"


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694988
What was the Great Chicago Fire? [What Was?]by Pascal, Janet B. 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2016)

BTSB #: 694988 In Bindery

Dewey: 977.3/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 720 F&P: T

Subjects: Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 Fires Chicago (Ill.) - History|yTo 1875


Summary: Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did.


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694989
What was the Great Depression? [What Was?]by Pascal, Janet B. 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2015)

BTSB #: 694989 Available

Dewey: 973.91/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.5 MG RC: 5.2 3-5 Lexile: 790 F&P: X

Subjects: Great Depression, 1929-1939 - United States United States - History|y1933-1945 United States - History|y1919-1933


Summary: Though the U.S. has seen other times of struggle, the Great Depression remains one of the hardest and most widespread tragedies in American history.


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What was the Harlem Renaissance? [What Was?]by Smith, Sherri L. 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2021)

BTSB #: 831142 Available

Dewey: 974.7/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 910 F&P: X

Subjects: Harlem Renaissance African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Intellectual life|y20th century African American arts - New York (State) - New York|y20th century African Americans - Intellectual life|y20th century Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Intellectual life|y20th century New York (N.Y.) - Intellectual life|y20th century


Summary: Traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance when African Americans excelled in the arts.


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