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Summary: Describes the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to divide the city of Berlin to its destruction in 1989.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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Summary: At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the Titanic! Also of a disastrous end, the zeppelin burst into flame as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone, people jumping from windows to escape. However, only 62 of the 97 crew members and passengers onboard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 387.7 PASCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What PascalSt. George, Judith
Summary: Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Summary: While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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Summary: "In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016