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Stuart, 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 STU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STU

Mara, 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 FRA

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRA

Franklin, 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 FRA

Shulman, Mark

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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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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 FRA

Fradin, 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 Fra

Fritz, 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 FRA

Byrd, 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 FRA

Epstein, 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 EPS

Adler, 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 FRA

Franklin, 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 Franklin

Goodrich, 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 GOO

Schanzer, 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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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 BEN

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Freedman, 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 FRA

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN FRE

Krensky, 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 KRE

Rosen, 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

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRA

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Retells the story of the famous thinker's first invention as a young Ben Franklin, troubled by the fact that fish swim better than he does, tries to invent a way to swim more fluidly.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2014

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Lawson, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and company 1939

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAW

Meyer, Michael J.

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Summary: "Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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Barretta, Gene.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Invent Barretta

Franklin, Benjamin

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carlson House Pub. 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Frank

McCormick, Blaine.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Entrepreneur Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN Franklin

Contents: Sparks fly -- Books and dreams -- A boy named silence -- Home away from home -- Taking care of business -- The good citizen -- Ben's great adventrue -- Home for good -- Talking about Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin's key dates.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN SAT

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