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Each book in this series offers a detailed account of an important historical event.

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What Was...? Book List:



The books in this series are unrelated (different characters and setting) and can be read in any order.

Book 1: What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Ages 8 - 12. February 7, 2013
AR: 5.8 (1.0 Points, Quiz #157220)
GLE: 5.8

Book 2: What Was the Boston Tea Party?
Ages 8 - 12. February 7, 2013
AR: 5.9 (1.0 Points, Quiz #157221)
GLE: 6.2

Book 3: What Was the Gold Rush?
Ages 8 - 12. February 7, 2013
AR: 4.6 (1.0 Points, Quiz #157222)

Book 4: What Was the March on Washington?
Ages 8 - 12. February 7, 2013
AR: 6.1 (1.0 Points, Quiz #157223)
GLE: 4.0;  F&P/GRL: P;  DRA: 38

Book 5: What Was Pearl Harbor?
Ages 8 - 12. June 27, 2013
AR: 5.4 (1.0 Points, Quiz #160144)

Book 6: What Was the First Thanksgiving?
Ages 8 - 12. August 15, 2013
AR: 5.0 (1.0 Points, Quiz #163167)
GLE: 4.3;  F&P/GRL: P;  DRA: 38

Book 7: What Was the Alamo?
Ages 8 - 12. October 3, 2013
AR: 5.4 (1.0 Points, Quiz #162448)

Book 8: What Was the Underground Railroad?
Ages 8 - 12. December 26, 2013
AR: 5.0 (1.0 Points, Quiz #165682)
GLE: 4.4

Book 9: What Was Ellis Island?
Ages 8 - 12. March 13, 2014
AR: 5.6 (1.0 Points, Quiz #165680)

Book 10: What Was Pompeii?
Ages 8 - 12. March 13, 2014
AR: 6.3 (1.0 Points, Quiz #165681)

Book 11: What Is the Statue of Liberty?
Ages 8 - 12. May 29, 2014
AR: 6.0 (1.0 Points, Quiz #166592)

Book 12: What Is the Panama Canal?
Ages 8 - 12. June 26, 2014
AR: 5.9 (1.0 Points, Quiz #168840)

Book 13: What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Ages 8 - 12. October 16, 2014
AR: 5.8 (1.0 Points, Quiz #171135)

Book 14: What Was the Hindenburg?
Ages 8 - 12. December 26, 2014
AR: 5.4 (1.0 Points, Quiz #172006)

Book 15: What Was D-Day?
Ages 8 - 12. April 14, 2015

Book 16: What Is the World Series?
Ages 8 - 12. June 23, 2015

Book 17: What Was Hurricane Katrina?
Ages 8 - 12. August 11, 2015

Book 18: What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
Ages 8 - 12. August 11, 2015
AR: 5.3 (1.0 Points, Quiz #177329)

Book 19: What Is the Super Bowl?
Ages 8 - 12. October 27, 2015

Book 20: What Was the Great Depression?
Ages 8 - 12. December 22, 2015
AR: 5.5 (1.0 Points, Quiz #180223)

Book 21: What Was Woodstock?
Ages 8 - 12. January 12, 2016
AR: 5.2 (1.0 Points, Quiz #181175)

Book 22: What Are the Summer Olympics?
Ages 8 - 12. March 22, 2016

Book 23: What Is the Declaration of Independence?
Ages 8 - 12. May 10, 2016

Book 24: What Were the Twin Towers?
Ages 8 - 12. May 10, 2016

Book 25: What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
Ages 8 - 12. October 25, 2016

Book 26: What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
Ages 8 - 12. October 25, 2016

Book 27: What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?
Ages 8 - 12. February 28, 2017

Book 28: What Was the Wild West?
Ages 8 - 12. April 25, 2017

Book 29: What Was the Holocaust?
Ages 8 - 12. June 27, 2017

Book 30: What Is Rock and Roll?
Ages 8 - 12. August 22, 2017

Book 31: What Are the Ten Commandments?
Ages 8 - 12. October 10, 2017

Book 32: What Was the Ice Age?
Ages 8 - 12. October 10, 2017

Book 33: What Is the World Cup?
Ages 8 - 12. March 6, 2018

Book 34: What Was the Titanic?
Ages 8 - 12. March 6, 2018

Book 35: What Is Climate Change?
Ages 8 - 12. June 19, 2018

Book 36: What Is the Constitution?
Ages 8 - 12. June 19, 2018

Book 37: What Were the Roaring Twenties?
Ages 8 - 12. October 16, 2018

Book 38: What Is the Women's Rights Movement?
Ages 8 - 12. October 16, 2018

Book 39: What Was Stonewall?
Ages 8 - 12. March 12, 2019

Book 40: What Is the Stanley Cup?
Ages 8 - 12. March 12, 2019

Book 41: What Is the Story of Hello Kitty?
Ages 8 - 12. April 16, 2019

Book 42: What Is the Story of Scooby-Doo?
Ages 8 - 12. April 16, 2019

Book 43: What Is NASA?
Ages 8 - 12. May 7, 2019

Book 44: What Was the Vietnam War?
Ages 8 - 12. May 7, 2019

Book 45: What Is the Story of Frankenstein?
Ages 8 - 12. August 13, 2019

Book 46: What Is the Story of Wonder Woman?
Ages 8 - 12. August 13, 2019

Book 47: What Was the Berlin Wall?
Ages 8 - 12. September 24, 2019

Book 48: What Is the Story of Doctor Who?
Ages 8 - 12. October 15, 2019

Book 49: What Is the Story of The Wizard of Oz?
Ages 8 - 12. October 15, 2019

Book 50: What Were the Negro Leagues?
Ages 8 - 12. December 24, 2019

Book 51: What Is the Story of Batman?
Ages 8 - 12. March 10, 2020

Book 52: What Is the Story of Looney Tunes?
Ages 8 - 12. March 10, 2020

Book 53: What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
Ages 8 - 12. March 17, 2020

Book 54: What Are the Paralympic Games?
Ages 8 - 12. March 17, 2020

Book Sets: Sets of Up to 54 Books

Other Websites for Additional Information:

Official or Publisher Website for What Was...? Series
Author Website for Kathleen Krull
Author Website for Joan Holub
Author Website for Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Website for Judith St. George
Author Website for Gail Herman
Author Website for Robin Koontz
Author Website for Dina Anastasio
Author Website for Dorothy Hoobler
Author Website for Thomas Hoobler
Author Website for Megan Stine
Author Website for Deborah Hopkinson
Author Blog for M. D. Payne
Author Website for Sheila Keenan
Author Website for Gabriel P. Cooper
Author Website for Varian Johnson


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