<b>The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the <i>New York Times </i>Best-Selling What Was? series.</b> <p/>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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Nico Medina, Who Hq<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Workshop<br><b>Published:</b> 04/09/2024<br><b>Pages:</b> 112<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Library Binding<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.70w x 0.50d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780593521595<br><b>Audience:</b> Ages 9-12<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Nico Medina</b> is the author of more than a dozen books in the Who HQ series, including <i>What Was World War I?</i>, <i>Who Was Jacques Cousteau?</i>, and <i>Where Is the Great Barrier Reef?</i> He spent many of his childhood sum