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Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Juvenile literature Inventors Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature Printers United States Biography Juvenile literature Scientists Scientists United States Biography Juvenile literature Statesmen Statesmen United States Biography United StatesStuart, Nancy Rubin
Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 STUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STUMara, Wil.
Summary: Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is one of the most extraordinary human beings to have ever lived. One of Americas greatest statesman, Franklin was also a scientist, an inventor, and a printera man who always worked to make life better for his fellow citizens. The well-organized chapters help students identify key details while the photographs, timelines and other text features encourage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAWood, Gordon S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN WoodFranklin, Benjamin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 FRAShulman, Mark
Summary: "Benjamin Franklin has been called one of the most accomplished and influential Americans in history, and his role in shaping the United States has had a lasting impact that is still felt today. Franklin's research into topics as varied as electricity, meteorology, demography, and oceanography were as wide-ranging and important as his travels, which took him across the globe as a diplomat."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Osborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Following their adventure with Benjamin Franklin, Jack and Annie want to learn more about the Founding Father and search out facts about his life and accomplishments, including his electricity kite-flying experiment and his most famous inventions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAFradin, Dennis B.
Summary: A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, publisher, inventor, scientist, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 FraFranklin, Benjamin
Summary: ESSAYS Franklin conceived of this book at the age of 26 but never actually got around to writing it. In 1986, editor George Rogers completed the task by gleaning Franklin's thoughts on the subject from his various writings. We could all use a little virtue these days, so libraries would do well to stock this volume.-ESSAYS Franklin conceived of this book at the age of 26 but never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Pub. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 FRAFritz, Jean.
Summary: A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRARockliff, Mara
Summary: Discover how Benjamin Franklin's scientific method challenged a certain Dr. Mesmer's mysterious powers in a whimsical look at a true moment in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 973.3092 ROCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 ROCSummary: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC BENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BENByrd, Robert.
Summary: Presents a detailed tribute to the life and work of the Founding Father that augments parchment-style spreads with artwork, facts, and quotes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAEpstein, Daniel Mark
Summary: Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America’s founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness—even his grandfatherly appearance—are legendary. But this image obscures the scandals that dogged him throughout his life. In The Loyal Son, award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the darker episodes in Franklin’s biography: his complex and confounding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 EPSSummary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUAdler, David A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAFranklin, Benjamin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US FranklinGoodrich, Phillip
Summary: In this under-reported and under-taught story of the American Revolution, Phillip Goodrich describes the role Benjamin Franklin played in bringing the northern and southern colonies together against corrupt British rule. Along with an "Inner Circle" of British Abolitionists, Franklin worked behind the scenes to secure the freedom of a single American slave, James Somersett; and then, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 GOOSchanzer, Rosalyn.
Summary: Focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines the many facets of America's most extraordinary founding father. Politician, diplomat, scientist, printer, and civic improver, Franklin influenced every aspect of American life, from his own time to the present. This book, designed to accompany the traveling Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary exhibition celebrating Franklin's 300th birthday, includes essays by ten prominent scholars that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 BENSummary: They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUSummary: Introduces 6 main characters of the American Revolution. Promotes interest in reading of biography with comedy, tragedy, error, foolishness, courage and persistence that is relevant to life today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JEAFreedman, Russell.
Summary: An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN FREKrensky, Stephen.
Summary: A beginning biography of young Ben Franklin who loves doing experiments and cannot wait to test out his latest idea involving a kite!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KRERosen, Michael J.
Summary: While his father unsuccessfully apprentices him to a joiner, a shoemaker, and turner, Benjamin experiments with wooden paddles as flippers and a kite, to his time as a printer⁰́₉s apprentice. "Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won't hear of it. The other trades he tried bored him through and through. But each time he fails to find a career, he took some important bit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020