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Teddy Roosevelt was a moose?

"Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn't know that he had a zebra, a lion, and a one-legged rooster at the White House! Siblings Paige and Turner...

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Main Author: Gutman, Dan (Author)
Other Authors: Steinfeld, Allison (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, An Imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Edition: First edition.
Series: Wait! What?
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919 > Anecdotes > Juvenile nonfiction.
Presidents > United States > Biography > Miscellanea > Juvenile nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction > Juvenile.
Biographies > Juvenile.
Illustrated works > Juvenile.
Summary: "Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn't know that he had a zebra, a lion, and a one-legged rooster at the White House! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the larger-than-life president, from his childhood and his Rough Rider days to his rise to politics and his complicated presidential legacy"--
Physical Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Audience: Ages 6-8
ISBN: 9781324017080
1324017082
9781324015642
1324015640
Author Notes: Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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