Jim O'Connor
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Who Is Bob Dylan?
$6.99 Read moreA Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter, musician, and artist, Bob Dylan is an American icon. In the past five decades, Dylan’s work has influenced everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Da… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0448464616
- Language: English
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What Is Rock and Roll?
$7.99 Add to cartPut on your dancing shoes and move to the music.
Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O’- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 045153381X
- Language: English
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Que Fue La Batalla de Gettysburg?
$14.95 Read more“Four score and seven years ago…” begins Abraham Lincoln’s beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So … [more below]
- Series: Quien Fue? / Who Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1631134108
- Language: Spanish
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Where Is the Colosseum?
$7.99 Add to cartA marvel of engineering that proclaimed the might of the Emperor of Ancient Rome.
The Emperor Titus opened the enormous Colosseum in AD 80 to host 100 days of games, and it will astound readers to lea- Series: Where Is?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 039954190X
- Language: English
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Where Is the Grand Canyon?
$7.99 Add to cartThere are canyons all over the planet, and the Grand Canyon in Arizona is not the biggest. Yet because of the spectacular colors in the rock layers and fascinating formations of boulders, buttes, and … [more below]
- Series: Where Is?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0448483572
- Language: English
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What Was Pompeii?
$7.99 Add to cartThe 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 a… [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479079
- Language: English
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What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
$7.99 Read more“Four score and seven years ago…” begins Abraham Lincoln’s beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So … [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0448462869
- Language: English
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What Is Lego?
$7.99 Add to cartFind out how these fun, stackable blocks became the most popular toys in the world.
The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble be- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 05, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593092945
- Language: English
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What Was the Vietnam War?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world.
The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1524789771
- Language: English
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What Were the Twin Towers?
$7.99 Add to cartDiscover the true story of the Twin Towers–how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed.
When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architec- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0448487853
- Language: English
