• Who Was Ernest Shackleton? (Who Was?)

Who Was Ernest Shackleton?
(Who Was?)

Author
James Buckley
Illustrator
Max Hergenrother
Publication Date
December 26, 2013
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Who Was Ernest Shackleton? (Who Was?)
Description
"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--
Publication date
December 26, 2013
Classification
Non-fiction
Page Count
-
ISBN-13
9780448479316
Lexile Measure
770
Guided Reading Level
P
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
JNF025080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Exploration & Discovery
JNF051170 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Discoveries
Library of Congress categories
Great Britain
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiograp
British
Antarctica
Explorers
Discovery and exploration
Shackleton, Ernest Henry
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Disc
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Exploration &
James Buckley
James Buckley Jr. has written more than 50 books for kids, including Who Was Jesse Owens?, Who Was Muhammad Ali? and Who Was Roberto Clemente?
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