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Focusing on bones and joints, blood and the heart, lungs and breathing, the digestive system, brain, nerves, senses, and the life cycle, Pocket Gen...

Explore all the wonders of the ocean in one pocket-sized reference guide!From colossal whales to microscopic plankton, our vast oceans are teeming ...

From the great white to the tiny dwarf lantern, Pocket Genius: Sharks profiles more than 150 sharks and rays and tells what they eat, where they li...

Mad Libs is the world’s greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page ...

Hear ye, hear ye! Get ready to learn all about the most powerful court in the United States.Ever since it was established in 1789, the United State...

More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build...

It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does...

Isaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries of the universe. When the plague broke out in London in 1...

Oh, rats! It's time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death--the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.While the coronavirus CO...

Land ho! Discover what the Age of Exploration was all about in this wonderful addition to the bestselling Who HQ series!Before the fifteenth centur...

Whether Congress is in session or not, here is an enthralling overview about the branch of our government closest to average Americans.Best-selling...

This baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history o...

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an ...

The Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989. Now readers can find out why it was built in the first place; and what it meant for Berliners living on ...

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 thr...

Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver en...

On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to...

This fascinating addition to the best-selling Who Was...? series does not settle questions of theology. Instead, it presents young readers with a b...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonn...

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom...