Overview :Escape from the ordinary and break into Alcatraz, America's most famous prison The island of Alcatraz has always been a place that's fascin... Read More
Overview :Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world's most famous drag queen. RuPaul Andre Charles alway... Read More
Overview :Journey into the Everglades--a national park in Florida home to hundreds of species of animals from crocodiles to manatees--in this illustra... Read More
Overview :If you've never known what a wildebeest is, you'll find out now in this latest Where? Is title about the Serengeti. Each year, over 1.5 mill... Read More
Overview :How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movement across America? Find out about the hist... Read More
Overview :Learn how incredible activists made the public aware of AIDS and spurred medical breakthroughs. In the early 1980s, the first cases of a dev... Read More
Overview : What does it take to be the queen? Margarita "Madge" Diaz is fat, foxy, and fabulous. She loves herself, and is adored by almost everyon... Read More
Overview :Life is fabulous for Jonathan Parish. He's seventeen, out and proud, and ready to party through senior year with his posse of best girlfrie... Read More
Overview :Would you rather be a stereotypically beautiful class-A moron or a Nobel Prize winner with a gimp arm? Your best friend's significant other... Read More
Overview :This compelling addition to the What Was? series covers what was supposed to be "the war to end all wars" but tragically wasn't. In 1914, th... Read More
Overview :A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly mammoths and saber-... Read More
Overview :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 liv... Read More
Overview :As the recent deaths of sixteen Sherpas underscore, climbing Mount Everest remains a daunting challenge. Located in the Himalayas, Everest i... Read More
Overview :The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the New Y... Read More
Overview :In this Where Is? title, kids can explore the Great Barrier Reef--big enough to be seen from space but made up of billions of tiny living or... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :He came. He saw. He conquered. Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy politician, an impressive orator, and a brave soldie... Read More
Overview :Named Temujin at birth by his nomadic family in early Mongolia, the great Genghis Khan used his skill and cunning to create the Mongol Empir... Read More
Overview :There is only one QUEEN OF SOUL Discover why Aretha Franklin garners so much R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Aretha Franklin was a musical and cultural icon... Read More
Overview :Jacques Cousteau is the most famous and beloved name in the world of deep-sea exploration. Cousteau discovered his passion in 1938, when he ... Read More