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What Is the Constitution? by Patricia Brennan Demuth; Who HQ; Tim Foley (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: What Was? Ser.
We the people at Who HQ bring readers the full story--arguments and all--of how the United States Constitution came into being. Signed on September 17, 1787--four years after the American War for Independence--the Constitution laid out the supreme law of the United States of America. Today it's easy fo ...Show more
What Was Pearl Harbor? by Patricia Brennan Demuth; John Mantha (Illustrator); Tim Tomkinson (Illustrator); Who HQ
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: What Was? Ser.
A terrifying attack On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into World War II ...Show more
Who Is Bill Gates? by Patricia Brennan Demuth
Category: Children's | Series: Who Was...? (Paperback)
Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this "Who Was...? "biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of his ...Show more
Who Was Charlie Chaplin? by Patricia Brennan Demuth
Category: Children's
Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty. Success came early and made Chaplin one of the best loved people in the United States until the McCarthy witch hunts drove Chaplin f ...Show more
Who Was Galileo? by Patricia Brennan Demuth
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Who Was? Ser.
Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He invented a telescope to observe the heavens. From th ...Show more
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