Browse by category
Barley Hall - A Day in a Medieval Town House by Kightley
Category: No Category | Series: What Life Was Like Ser.
A recreation of a day in the life of Barley Hall in its heyday in Medieval Britain. The reader is given a fly-on-the wall view of the architectural details and decor, the practicalities of daily life and the social structures and customs of the period.
Fishbourne - A Day in a Roman Palace by Triggs
Category: No Category | Series: What Life Was Like Ser.
WHAT WAS POMPEII? by JIM O'CONNOR
Category: Education | Series: What Was? Ser.
The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1 ...Show more
What Are Castles and Knights? by Sarah Fabiny; Who HQ; Dede Putra (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: What Was? Ser.
Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended
What Is the Constitution? by Patricia Brennan Demuth; Who HQ; Tim Foley (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | 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 It Was Like to Be A Viking by David Long
Category: No Category | Series: What It Was Like to Be ...
From traders to raiders, embark on an incredible voyage through Viking life and history in the first in an exciting new series from bestselling non-fiction writer David Long.
What It Was Like to Be an... Ancient Maya by David Long; Stefano Tambellini (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: What It Was Like to Be ... Ser.
Embark on a captivating exploration into the rise and fall of the rich and colourful Maya civilisation with Blue Peter Award-winning author David Long.Largely forgotten for centuries, the ancient Maya were incredible. Their cities across Central and South America featured astonishing pyramids and palace ...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
What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? by Who HQ; Tim Foley (Illustrator); Jess Brallier
Category: No Category | Series: What Was? Ser.
Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it's meant for the world ever since. 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 th ...Show more
What Was the Titanic? by Stephanie Sabol; Gregory Copeland (Illustrator); Who HQ
Category: Children's Books | Series: What Was? Ser.
For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the "Titanic" that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down on April 15, 1912, and how its wreckage was discovered 75 later. Illustrations.
What Was the Wild West? by Janet B. Pascal
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: What Was...?
Saddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West. The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when territories west of the Mississippi River remained untamed and lawless.Famous for cowboys, American Indians, lawmen, gunslingers, pioneers, and prospectors, this ...Show more
1 - 11 of 11