What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916?

The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the New York Times Best-Selling What Was? series.

On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-eight-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a shark in shallow water off Beach Haven, New Jersey--the first recorded shark attack in American history. Scientists claimed a shark could not be responsible, but more deadly attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a "War on Sharks." In this illustrated book, which features 16 pages of black-and-white photographs, readers will learn about the likely culprit (or culprits) in the attacks--the great white shark and the bull shark--and how the bloody summer of 1916 would change how people viewed sharks forever.

Author: Nico Medina, Who Hq
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 04/09/2024
Series: What Was?
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780593521588

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
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