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  • Who Is Elton John?

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    How does a little boy from the London suburbs named Reginald Kenneth Dwight grow up to become one of the biggest pop stars of all time? A lot of talent and a lot of personality! Elton John, as he woul… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 22 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448488469
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Che Guevara?

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    Viva la revoluci?!

    Find out how Che Guevara–a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt–ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause.

    His very image has become asso

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Labrecque, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 0399544011
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Walt Whitman?

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    How did a New York printer become one of the most influential poets of all time? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library

    Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0399543988
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Claude Monet?

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    Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a founder of the French Impressionist art movement, and today his paintings sell for millions of dollars. While Monet … [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Waldron, Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 23 2009
    • ISBN10: 0448449854
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Maria Tallchief?

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    Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was…?
    • Author: Gourley, Catherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 22 2002
    • ISBN10: 0448426757
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Leif Erikson?

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    Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? series!

    Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His f

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Medina, Nico
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 05 2018
    • ISBN10: 0448488612
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Richard Nixon?

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    Learn more about Richard Nixon–one of America’s most unpopular presidents and the only one to resign from the position.

    On August 8, 1974, millions sat stunned as they watched Richard Nixon on TV whe

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Stine, Megan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 1524789801
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Catherine the Great?

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    Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia’s longest-ruling female leader!

    Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed to come to power. But at age sixteen, she married th

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0399544305
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?

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    Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Gigliotti, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 11 2015
    • ISBN10: 0448483114
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Jacqueline Kennedy?

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    Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses.

    Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamoro

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Bader, Bonnie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 06 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448486989
    • Language: English
  • Who Is Judy Blume?

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    Learn how Judy Blume went from a stay-at-home mother to one of the most beloved American authors of the twentieth century.

    Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from chil

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Anderson, Kirsten
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 02 2018
    • ISBN10: 0448488493
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Ronald Reagan?

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    From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in Hollywood and on to a career in politics that took him all the way to the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan kept an abiding faith in America and in… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Milton, Joyce
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 29 2004
    • ISBN10: 0448433443
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Ernest Shackleton?

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    As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton’s incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was…?
    • Author: Buckley, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 0448479311
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Jane Austen?

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    Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author.

    Although Jane Austen’s works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal reco

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Fabiny, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 0448488639
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Coretta Scott King?

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    The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.

    Here’s a

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Herman, Gail
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 0451532619
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?

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    Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in … [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Frith, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: January 07 2010
    • ISBN10: 0448453460
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Cesar Chavez?

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    Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist.

    When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Rau, Dana Meachen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 1101995602
    • Language: English
  • Who Is Hillary Clinton?

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    Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out now

    At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an applic

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Alexander, Heather
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 0448490153
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Celia Cruz?

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    How did a working-class girl from Cuba become a symbol of artistic freedom for Cuban Americans and the “Queen of Salsa”? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!

    Although her family and friend

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    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 04 2020
    • ISBN10: 0448488698
    • Language: English
  • Who Was Maurice Sendak?

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    It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut–June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, af… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pascal, Janet B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 27 2013
    • ISBN10: 0448465000
    • Language: English
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