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How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
Author: Georgia Bragg, Kevin O'Malley
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. For example: — It is believed that Henry VIII's remains exploded with...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780802798183
ISBN-10: 0802798187
Publication Date: 3/15/2011
Pages: 192
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This is a fun read. Judging from vocabulary and sentence structure, it seems aimed at the younger teen reader -- but it's well worth reading. There are unusual historical insights one never sees in a standard history book.
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Find out about the famous deaths of: King Tut Julius Caesar Cleopatra Christopher Columbus Henry VIII Elizabeth I Pocahontus Galileo Galilei Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marie Antoinette George Washingtoin Napoleon Buonaparte Ludwig Van Beethoven Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens James A. Garfield Charles Darwin Marie Curie Albert Einstein


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