Who Was? and What Was? Collection of 187 Paperback Books

This is a series of inspiring biographies and history titles that are perfect for young middle-grade readers.

Each book is complete with facts, interesting anecdotes, and compelling black-and-white illustrations. Sidebars on related topics, a timeline, and a bibliography enhance readers understanding of each person. This set will match your readers who are beyond easy-to-read but not quite ready for long, detailed nonfiction.

Inside - Who Was Clara Barton?

Inside - Who Was Sitting Bull?

Kids—even kids who don't normally enjoy reading—love these WHO WAS? books. Your library kids will be asking for more and more titles!

Each book is fun to read because it is liberally illustrated and the information is easy to digest. Plus, each book is written more like a story and contains truly interesting lessons about each person, place, or event.

Even adults like reading these books because the story is full of unique details and little-known facts that adults may not remember from their school days. And as one gets older, you realize how much can be learned from the past; so revisiting persons and events from history can provide important lessons for both young and old.

Please Note:Some books may have a small non-returnable mark on the spine.

If a title is out of stock we will substitute with another title from this series.

Volumes in this Series:

1. A.A. Milne
2. Abigail Adams
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Albert Einstein
5. Alexander Graham Bell
6. Alexander the Great
7. Alexander Hamilton
8. Amelia Earhart
9. Anne Frank
10. Annie Oakley
11. Aretha Franklin
12. Babe Ruth
13. Barack Obama
14. Beatrix Potter
15. Benedict Arnold
16. Benjamin Franklin
17. Betsy Ross
18. Bill Gates
19. Blackbeard
20. Booker T. Washington
21. Brothers Grimm
22. Bruce Lee
23. Catherine the Great
24. Charlie Chaplin
25. Charles Dickens
26. Charles Schulz
27. Christopher Columbus
28. Chuck Jones
29. Clara Barton
30. Claude Monet
31. Confucius
32. Coretta Scott King
33. Dalai Lama
34. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
35. Daniel Boone
36. Davy Crockett
37. Derek Jeter
38. Dolly Parton
39. Dr. Seuss
40. Duke Ellington
41. Edgar Allan Poe
42. Eleanor Roosevelt
43. Elvis Presley
44. Ernest Hemingway
45. Ernest Shackleton
46. Ferdinand Magellan
47. Frank Lloyd Wright
48. Franklin Roosevelt
49. Frederick Douglass
50. Galileo
51. Gandhi
52. Genghis Khan
53. George Washington
54. George Washington Carver
55. Harriet Beecher Stowe
56. Harriet Tubman
57. Harry Houdini
58. Helen Keller
59. Henry Ford
60. Henry VIII
61. H.J. Heinz
62. Ida B. Wells
63. Isaac Newton
64. Jackie Chan
65. Jackie Robinson
66. Jacqueline Kennedy
67. Jacques Cousteau
68. Jane Austen
69. Jesse Owens
70. Jesus
71. Jim Henson
72. Joan of Arc
73. Johnny Appleseed
74. John F. Kennedy
75. Jules Verne
76. Julia Child
77. Julius Caesar
78. J.R.R. Tolkien
79. King Tut
80. Laura Ingalls Wilder
81. Leif Erikson
82. Leonardo da Vinci
83. Lewis Carroll
84. Levi Strauss
85. Louis Braille
86. Lucille Ball
87. Malala Yousafzai
88. Marco Polo
89. Marie Antoinette
90. Marie Curie
91. Mark Twain
92. Martin Luther King, Jr.
93. Maya Angelou
94. Michael Jordan
95. Michelle Obama
96. Milton Bradley
97. Milton Hershey
98. Mister Rogers
99. Mother Teresa
100. Muhammad Ali
101. Napoleon
102. Navajo Code Talkers
103. Neil Armstrong
104. Nellie Bly
105. Nelson Mandela
106. Nikola Tesla
107. Norman Rockwell
108. Paul Revere
109. Pelé
110. Princess Diana
111. P.T. Barnum
112. Queen Elizabeth
113. Queen Victoria
114. Queen Elizabeth II
115. Rachel Carson
116. Richard Nixon
117. Roald Dahl
118. Robert E. Lee
119. Robert Ripley
120. Roberto Clemente
121. Ronald Reagan
122. Rosa Parks
123. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
124. Sam Walton
125. Seabiscuit
126. Selena
127. Sitting Bull
128. Sojourner Truth
129. Stan Lee
130. Stanley and Livingstone
131. Steve Jobs
132. Susan B. Anthony
133. Temple Grandin
134. Theodore Roosevelt
135. Thomas Alva Edison
136. Thomas Jefferson
137. The Three Stooges
138. The Tuskegee Airmen
139. Ulysses S. Grant
140. Walt Disney
141. Walt Whitman
142. Wayne Gretzky
143. William Shakespeare
144. Winston Churchill
145. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
146. The Wright Brothers
     
     
147. What Was the Age of Exploration?
148. What Was the Alamo?
149. What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
150. What Was the Berlin Wall?
151. What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
152. What Was the Boston Tea Party?
153. What Are Castles and Knights?
154. What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
155. What Is the Constitution?
156. What Is the Declaration of Independence?
157. What Was D-Day?
158. What Was Ellis Island?
159. What Was the First Thanksgiving?
160. What Was the Gold Rush?
161. What Was the Great Depression?
162. What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
163. What Was the Hindenburg?
164. What Was the Holocaust
165. What Was Hurricane Katrina?
166. What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
167. What Was the March on Washington?
168. What Were the Negro Leagues?
169. What Is the Panama Canal?
170. What Are the Paralympic Games?
171. What Was Pearl Harbor?
172. What Was the Plague?
173. What Was Pompeii?
174. What Were the Roaring Twenties?
175. What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
176. What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
177. What Is the Statue of Liberty?
178. What Is the Stanley Cup?
179. What Are the Summer Olympics?
180. What Is the Super Bowl?
181. What Was the Titanic?
182. What Were the Twin Towers?
183. What Was the Underground Railroad?
184. What Was the Vietnam War?
185. What Was the Wild West?
186. What Is the World Series?
187. What Is the World Cup?