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694991
What was the Hindenburg? [What Was?]by Pascal, Janet B. 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2014)

BTSB #: 694991 Available

Dewey: 387.7/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 4.7 3-5 Lexile: 770 F&P: X

Subjects: Hindenburg (Airship) Aircraft accidents Airships


Summary: The Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built. It burst into flames as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone.


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440350
What was the Holocaust? [What Was?]by Herman, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)

BTSB #: 440350 Available

Dewey: 940.53/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 720 F&P: X

Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945


Summary: A 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 death camps--six million of them Jews.


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635032
What was the Ice Age? [What Was?]by Medina, Nico 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)

BTSB #: 635032 Available

Dewey: 551.7/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.5 3-5 Lexile: 840 F&P: W

Subjects: Ice age


Summary: A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive.


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842232
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition? [What Was?]by St. George, Judith 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2014)

BTSB #: 842232 Available

Dewey: 917.804/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.6 3-5 Lexile: 860 F&P: U

Subjects: Lewis, Meriwether,|d1774-1809 Clark, William,|d1770-1838 Lewis and Clark Expedition|d(1804-1806) West (U.S.) - Exploration


Summary: True-life adventure tale of the two-year journey that finally brought the explorers to the Pacific Ocean.


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303845
What was the plague? [What Was?]by Edwards, Roberta 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2021)

BTSB #: 303845 Available

Dewey: 616.9/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.8 MG Lexile: 950 F&P: X

Subjects: Black Death Plague - History Plague - Prevention Diseases and history


Summary: While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague. This disease, also known as the "Black Death," spread throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century and claimed an astonishing 75-200 million lives by the time it officially ended. Learn about these grimy and horrific years, explaining just how this pandemic began, how society reacted to the disease, and the impact it left.


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774244
What was the Titanic? [What Was?]by Sabol, Stephanie 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin, 2018)

BTSB #: 774244 Available

Dewey: 910.9163/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.4 3-5 Lexile: 820 F&P: V

Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks - North Atlantic Ocean - History|y20th century Shipwrecks - North Atlantic Ocean


Summary: Find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later.


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372490
What was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921? [What Was?]by Gayle, Caleb 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2023)

BTSB #: 372490 Available

Dewey: 976.6/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 960 F&P: Y

Subjects: Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 African Americans - Oklahoma - Tulsa - History|y20th century Riots - Oklahoma - Tulsa - History|y20th century Racism - Oklahoma - Tulsa - History|y20th century Tulsa (Okla.) - Race relations Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) - Race relations


Summary: The Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a thriving neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses. Then, in one weekend in 1921, all of this was lost. A racist mob tore through the streets, burning everything to the ground and killing scores of innocent residents.


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What was the underground railroad? [What Was?]by McDonough, Yona Zeldis 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2013)

BTSB #: 624146 Temp OS

Dewey: 973.7/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 710 F&P: W

Subjects: Underground Railroad Fugitive slaves Antislavery movements


Summary: No one knows where the term "Underground Railroad" came from--there were no train tracks, only abolitionist "conductors" who helped bring an estimated 100,000 slaves to freedom through elaborate routes that included "stations," safe houses where fugitives could rest before moving on, and a system of codes and signals used to identify friend from foe. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom.


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685801
What was the Vietnam War? [What Was?]by O'Connor, Jim 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)

BTSB #: 685801 Available

Dewey: 959.704/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.3 MG RC: 5.6 3-5 Lexile: 870 F&P: X

Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Vietnam - History|y1945-1975 United States - History|y1961-1969 United States - History|y1969-


Summary: Explains why the U.S. got involved, what the human cost was, and how defeat in Vietnam left a lasting scar on America.


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635049
What was World War I? [What Was?]by Medina, Nico 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2023)

BTSB #: 635049 Available

Dewey: 940.3/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.5 MG F&P: X

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918


Summary: In 1914, the assassination of an Austrian archduke set off a disastrous four-year-long conflict involving dozens of countries with battles taking place in all parts of the world. Provides a clear and compelling account of this long and tragic event, a war that left over 20 million dead and was the lead-up to World War II barely twenty years later.


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496945
What were the Negro Leagues? [What Was?]by Johnson, Varian 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2019)

BTSB #: 496945 Available

Dewey: 796.357/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.5 MG Lexile: 1030 F&P: W

Subjects: Negro leagues - History African American baseball players Baseball - United States - History


Summary: All about the baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners.


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What were the Salem Witch Trials? [What Was?]by Holub, Joan 

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2015)

BTSB #: 461338 In Bindery

Dewey: 345.744/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 760 F&P: Z

Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft) - Massachusetts - Salem Witchcraft - Massachusetts - Salem - History|y17th century Witch hunting - Massachusetts - Salem - History|y17th century


Summary: Something 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 girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, 19 people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony.


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685802
What were the Twin Towers? [What Was?]by O'Connor, Jim 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2016)

BTSB #: 685802 Available

Dewey: 725/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.9 MG RC: 5.7 3-5 Lexile: 900 F&P: W

Subjects: World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) Skyscrapers - New York (State) - New York Buildings - New York (N.Y.)


Summary: Discover 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 architectural wonder. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers--from their ambitious construction to their tragic end.


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