18 best-selling history books like Who Was Benedict Arnold? by James Buckley Jr.

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Who Was Benedict Arnold?

By: James Buckley Jr.

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Find out how this one-time American hero became the country's most notorious traitor. As a young…

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1. What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?

By: Dorothy Hoobler , Thomas Hoobler , Ted Hammond

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Franci… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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2. What Was the Great Depression?

By: Dede Putra , Janet B. Pascal

3.91

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

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  • american history
  • history
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction

3. What Was the Hindenburg?

By: Janet B. Pascal , David Groff , None

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the… read more

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4. What Was the Underground Railroad?

By: Yona Zeldis McDonough , James Bennett , Lauren Mortimer

4.40

Format: 205 pages,

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "c… read more

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5. What Was the Great Chicago Fire?

By: Janet B. Pascal

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the t… read more

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6. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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7. What Was World War I?

By: Nico Medina

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This compelling addition to the What Was? series covers what was supposed to be “the war to end all… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • war
  • nonfiction
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8. What Was Pearl Harbor?

By: Patricia Brennan Demuth

4.30

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • war
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
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9. What Was the Titanic?

By: Stephanie Sabol

4.36

Format: 112 pages, Library Binding

For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that … read more

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  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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10. Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?

By: Megan Stine

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappeara… read more

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  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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11. What Was the Plague?

By: Roberta Edwards

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Oh, rats! It's time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death--the deadliest pandemic re… read more

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  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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12. What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?

By: Steve Korté

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Learn about the deadly and unexpected blizzard that slammed the Midwestern United States in 1888 an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • history
  • childrens
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13. What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?

By: Caleb Gayle

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, O… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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14. What Was the Donner Party? (What Was?)

By: Ben Hubbard

3.85

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn about the treacherous journey across the Sierra Nevada mountain range that isolated and trapp… read more

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  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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15. What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

By: Sherri L. Smith

4.12

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborho… read more

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  • middle grade
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. What Do We Know About the Winchester House?

By: Emma Carlson Berne

3.90

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Why wa… read more

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  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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17. What Do We Know About Atlantis?

By: Emma Carlson Berne

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Does t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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18. What Was Reconstruction?

By: Sherri L. Smith

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelli… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • war
  • nonfiction
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19. Where Is the North Pole?

By: Megan Stine

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Young armchair adventurers can travel to the topmost point on the globe and learn all about the vas… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of What Do We Know About the Chupacabra? by Pam Pollack

20. What Do We Know About the Chupacabra?

By: Pam Pollack

3.94

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Is the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
Cover of What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916? (What Was?) by Nico Medina

21. What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916? (What Was?)

By: Nico Medina

4.16

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • history
  • childrens
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22. What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

By: Kirsten Anderson

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Learn about Boston's molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • history
  • childrens
Cover of What Do We Know About the Mystery of D. B. Cooper? (What Do We Know About?) by Kirsten Anderson

23. What Do We Know About the Mystery of D. B. Cooper? (What Do We Know About?)

By: Kirsten Anderson

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Find out what really happened when a strange man hijacked an airplane in 1971 and then parachuted o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Who Was Benedict Arnold?

By: James Buckley Jr.

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Find out how this one-time American hero became the country's most notorious traitor. As a young… read more

Similar categories in James Buckley Jr.'s Who Was Benedict Arnold? book and James Buckley Jr.'s Who Was Benedict Arnold?

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction

18 Top childrens books like Who Was Benedict Arnold? by James Buckley Jr.

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What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?

Dorothy Hoobler , Thomas Hoobler , Ted Hammond

4.17

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What Was the Great Depression?

Dede Putra , Janet B. Pascal

3.91

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

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What Was World War I?

Nico Medina

4.22

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18 Top history books like What Was World War I? by Nico Medina

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Who Was George Washington Carver?

Jim Gigliotti

4.29

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Who Was Albert Einstein?

Robert Andrew Parker , Nancy Harrison , Jess M. Brallier

4.22

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Who Was Queen Elizabeth I?

Nancy Harrison , June Eding

4.19

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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Bonnie Bader , Nancy Harrison , Elizabeth Wolf

4.00

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