You wouldn't want to
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Author
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Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Get ready...it's the 1920s, and more and more women around the world are being given the right to vote. But women have not always had it so good. Let your great aunt Edith and her cousin Mabel tell you what it was like to be a suffragist.
17) You wouldn't want to sail on an Irish famine ship!: a trip across the Atlantic you'd rather not make
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F. Watts
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A look at Irish immigrants who came to the United States to escape the potato famine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster.
23) You wouldn't want to be a nurse during the American Civil War!: a job that's not for the squeamish
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Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A study of nursing care during the Civil War, the problems with caring for the sick and the injured, and the medical advances that have been made after the war.
24) You wouldn't want to be a secret agent during World War II!: a perilous mission behind enemy lines
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Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explains what it was like to be a British secret agent working behind enemy lines in France during World War II, describing the training, equipment, and techniques used by spies and the danger they faced during their missions.
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Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the English physicist whose work on the laws of motion and gravity and invention of calculus had great influence on the understanding of the physical nature of the universe.
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Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict the story of Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant cook who became known as "Typhoid Mary" when she infected many New Yorkers with the deadly disease.
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Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe what it would require to launch a voyage of discovery, what shipboard life would be like, and what the rewards would be using the voyages of Columbus as an example.
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Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
"Most people spend a third of their life sleeping - around 25 years or more! Sleeping is essential for health and happiness, but no one really knows why we do it or why we have strange dreams. Read on to learn about sleep studies, the benefits of sleep, and what can happen if we don't get enough sleep."--